On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:17:32 -0400 Kirk Talman <[email protected]> wrote:
:>Interesting patent. :>There is prior art in this area dating back at least 2 decades. I used :>the technique they described in a program less than a decade ago to manage :>allocation and freeing of cells in a multi-tasking environment. The same :>technique (w/o multi-tasking environment and requirement for CS/CDS) is :>almost obvious for cell management. I have looked in my archives and I wrote such code in 1996 (probably earlier, but that is the date from the ISPF statistics). It was for PC routines to get a local workblock - long before the linkage stack and the STORAGE macro - was a severe pain to branch mode GETMAIN in XM mode (take a lock, switch keys, no place to save status unless you wanted to PCLINK extract - ugh). :>Having been a listener on a patent discussion on the subject of 3270 :>datastream compression decades ago, it was interesting that after several :>months of discussions the original points of contention had been dropped :>and a whole new set created. In that case, after a certain point in the :>discussions, the technical people were taken out of the loop. We never :>knew the resolution of the dispute. :>IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on :>09/25/2012 03:21:30 PM: :>> From: John Gilmore <[email protected]> :>> The patent that Jim Mulder cited: :>> http://www.google.com/patents/US20090100243 -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
