An enqueue structure type is provided within a coupling facility to record the use state and to manage a request queue of resources shared among programs on computers of a system. All programs to use a shared resource issue a request to reserve the shared resource to the coupling facility before using it. The coupling facility affords the permission to use the resource to the programs if it is usable, and adds the programs to the resource request queue if unusable. When a program using the share...

The invention concerns a system for managing resources, which can take the form of (a) computer-compatible information, such as data files and programs, and (b) non-computer-compatible information, as data contained on microfiche, and (c) physical objects. The resources are located at graphically diverse sites. The invention contains a descriptive profile for each resource, and allows any user to search all profiles, and to search the profiles according to "fields" (a database term), such as by ...

To closely simulate the experience of an end user, a software agent executes where the end user would be situated and attempts to exercise a computer resource such as a networked application or a network resource in a simulated transaction in exactly or nearly exactly the same way that the computer resource would be exercised by the end user in non-simulated transaction. The results of the simulated transaction and of other simulated transactions by other software agents are communicated to a ce...

Techniques for transparently registering non-memory resources used by a program with a garbage collector so that the non-memory resources can be freed when the program is finished using them. The techniques automatically determine from the program that the execution will use a resource and then automatically modify the program's behavior so that the resource is registered. When the program is finished with the resource, it can be determined from the registry whether the resource must be freed. I...

Various methods of caching web resources include caching in accordance with a number of times accessed, a frequency of access, or a duration of access. One method of caching web resources includes the step of accessing a first web resource. The first web resource is cached, if no other web resource is accessed after a pre-determined period of time. Another method of caching web resources includes the step of accessing a first web resource. The first web resource is cached, if the first web resou...

A computer processor includes a number of register pairs LOCKADDR/LOCKCOUNT. In each pair, the LOCKADDR/LOCKCOUNT register is to hold a value that identifies a lock for a computer resource. When a lock instruction issues, the corresponding LOCKCOUNT register is incremented. When an unlock instruction issues, the corresponding LOCKCOUNT register is decremented. The lock is freed when a count associated with the LOCKCOUNT register is decremented to zero. This scheme provides fast locking and unloc...

According to the method of the invention, connections are divided into at least two different connection classes according to their requirements for transmission delay. The control system of the base station subsystem maintains a record of the transmission needs of the users logged in different categories and based thereon divides the available radio resources into slots of suitable capacity. For connections with stringent requirements for transmission delay, circuit-switched connections are all...

A mechanism for seamlessly searching and accessing information available through the Internet and other resources is disclosed. The present invention maintains a database of file objects available from numerous sources. The present invention updates the database periodically to ensure the accuracy and completeness of it. The present invention also may access and retrieve data from numerous sources when prompted by a single and simple command initiated by the user. The user is shielded from the q...

A method and system of managing resources in a host bridge by determining whether resources are deficient, preventing a second device from obtaining further resources and if this measure does not enable a first device to obtain resources, guaranteeing all resources to the first device.

A method for optimizing allocation of telephone and communication resources in a trunked communication system (100) is accomplished in the following manner. Upon receiving a resource request, a communication resource allocator, determines whether the request is for a communication resource (trunking call) or for a telephone resource (telephone call). When the request is for a communication resource, the communication resource allocator, allocates a communication resource from a broadcast unit in...