摘要:
A method for rapid positioning of a display pointer on a display screen may be accomplished by establishing a preferred order of display pointer movement between widgets when the particular screen location of the widgets is known. Having established the preferred order, the display pointer is automatically repositioned based on the preferred order when an input stimulus is activated. The input stimulus may be activated by a function of the keyboard, mouse, or any other input devices that may be used in association with a computer.
摘要:
In a multitasking restricted access data processing system a common compact mechanism is provided for resolving access conflicts automatically irrespective of the category of restriction (read access, modify access or destroy access the type of restriction (shared or exclusive) or the origin of the restriction (user specified or instruction implied). The mechanism operates by testing codewords (34) totally defining the access restriction in relation to a newly required access and currently in force access restrictions in relation to the inhabitants of a chained list (24) associated by a hashed object address form (18) access being denied, held pending until released or a time-out exception occurs or granted, the list appropriate to the transaction being updated accordingly and also updated as restrictions are released.
摘要:
A data storage medium having the ability to recover from media errors includes a directory (36) located at any desired region of a data storage area with redundant directory pointers at reserved locations. A unique file token is included in the directory entry (40) for each data file and is also included in each extent list (44) where the locations of parts of a fragmented data file are stored. Multiple extent lists are chained in two directions to facilitate reconstruction of the chain if part of the pointer information is lost.
摘要:
In a multitasking restricted access data processing system a common compact mechanism is provided for resolving access conflicts automatically irrespective of the category of restriction (read access, modify access or destroy access the type of restriction (shared or exclusive) or the origin of the restriction (user specified or instruction implied). The mechanism operates by testing codewords (34) totally defining the access restriction in relation to a newly required access and currently in force access restrictions in relation to the inhabitants of a chained list (24) associated by a hashed object address form (18) access being denied, held pending until released or a time-out exception occurs or granted, the list appropriate to the transaction being updated accordingly and also updated as restrictions are released.
摘要:
A WORM data storage medium includes primary (100, 200, 300, ...) and secondary (101-104) data storage areas in which data and pointers to allocated but unwritten update areas are written. Original and updated data is written in a write sequence or chain of primary data areas separated by branched secondary data storage areas. The most recent updated data is found in a two level search of primary and then secondary data storage areas in order to save time by searching only those secondary areas where the most recent update exist.
摘要:
An optical storage arrangement is provided where a unified optical disk (10), or other optical media, has separate Read/Write (R/W) (20) and Write Once Read Many (WORM) (15) areas. A Read/Write head or transducer selectively records data only once in the WORM area but records and re-records data in the R/W area. Both areas can be selectively read repetitively. The WORM area is used to store data records and the R/W area contains directories for the data records recorded in the WORM area.
摘要:
A data storage medium having the ability to recover from media errors includes a directory (36) located at any desired region of a data storage area with redundant directory pointers at reserved locations. A unique file token is included in the directory entry (40) for each data file and is also included in each extent list (44) where the locations of parts of a fragmented data file are stored. Multiple extent lists are chained in two directions to facilitate reconstruction of the chain if part of the pointer information is lost.
摘要:
A WORM data storage medium includes primary (100, 200, 300, ...) and secondary (101-104) data storage areas in which data and pointers to allocated but unwritten update areas are written. Original and updated data is written in a write sequence or chain of primary data areas separated by branched secondary data storage areas. The most recent updated data is found in a two level search of primary and then secondary data storage areas in order to save time by searching only those secondary areas where the most recent update exist.