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.
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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on 09/25/2012 03:21:30 PM: > From: John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> > The patent that Jim Mulder cited: > > http://www.google.com/patents/US20090100243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
