US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Switching between polling-mode and interruption-driven modes without loss of I/O replies" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,776, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Switching between polling-mode and interruption-driven modes without loss of I/O replies" was invented by Richard John Moore (Waterlooville, Great Britain) and Damian Osisek (Vestal, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for supporting lossless transitions between interruption and polling mode of a resource. In response to a state variable setting or a timed trigger, launching a task to process replies for a resource. The task processes each ready reply for each resource. A ti...