ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,079, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing system services" was invented by Naijie Li (Beijing), Min Cheng (Beijing), Kui Zhang (TianJin, China), Yi Chai (Beijing) and Guang Han Sui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for providing system services. In some embodiments, a method is disclosed. According to the method, from a user program in a user address space, a request for a system service is received via a program call instruction of a set of program call instructions in a...