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US 2001/0018708 A1Published application
Platform-independent programmable batch processing engine
OwnerHarry E. Shisler, Kevin D. Reitzinventors
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Abstract
A data processing system includes a multitude of client computers and server computers, of various platform types, interconnected by a network. A batch processing engine permits an application resident on a client computer to specify processing to be performed by one or more of the computers connected to the network, regardless of the platform type of such computers. The batch processing engine is implemented in part by middleware.
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A programmable batch processing engine, comprising:
- a design tool subsystem operable on a first computer that creates a set of specifications in response to user input;
- a processing subsystem adapted to perform processing in response to the specifications;
- and
- a middleware subsystem providing communication of the specifications from the design tool subsystem to the processing subsystem.
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A data processing method, comprising:
- defining a set of specifications for an application;
- storing the set of specifications on a specifications server, the specifications thereby being available to a plurality of users;
- sending the set of specifications to a processing subsystem for processing;
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- sending the results of the processing to one of said plurality of users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.