(under the class definition) Subject matter comprising means or steps for administrating over processor or job execution in a digital data processing system.
(1) Note. For clarification, a "process" and a "task" are equivalent terms in the art, in addition, a "thread" is a path of execution within a process.
(2) Note. Control functions such as subroutine calling and control are classified elsewhere. See the SEE OR SEARCH CLASS notes below.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
1, for virtual machine task or process management.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
712, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Processing Architecture and Instruction Processing (e.g., Processors),
220+, for control functions such as subroutine calling and control.