ATTACHED PROCESSING SYSTEMS CONSISTING

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
ARC	DATAPOINT CORPORATION	San Antonio TX	Attached Processing Systems Consisting of a Combination of Computer Components Including Applications and File Processors Electronically Linked Together with an Interprocessor Bus to Provide a Single Integrated System;
ATTACHED RESOURCE COMPUTER	DATAPOINT CORPORATION	San Antonio TX	Attached Processing Systems Consisting of Electrical Apparatus for Linking Mini-Computers Together to Function as a Unit;Applicant disclaims the term Attached and Computer apart from the mark as shown on the formal drawing, without waiving any of applicant's common law rights to the mark as a whole.;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A plurality of local network groups of computers (102) are coupled together by a network (104). Independent processing systems that execute a single operating system are coupled together by a network (220) to form the local network groups. The independent processing systems may have more than one CPU (202). One or more of the independent processing systems may share power, cooling and a housing, thereby forming a common fault processor group (200). An application is written to execute across multiple independent processing systems and common fault processor groups. That is, the application runs in many instances that each run on independent processing systems. The multiple instances of the application provide some measure of high availability by using N+K sparing or the like. The application is for example, call processing or radio control. A processor notification list (304) keeps track of the independent processing systems that cooperatively provide an application. The independent processing systems monitor state information for independent processing systems on its processor notification lists. Also, the independent processing systems exchange messages periodically with independent processing systems on its processor notification list. The failure to receive a message is noted as a failure that requires recovery.