(under subclass 100) Subject matter comprising means or steps directed to (a) managing processes by collecting, listing, and storing jobs for later sequential execution as a group without user intervention (i.e., batch processing), or (b) executing jobs immediately after they are received by a system and occurring in groups (i.e., transaction processing).
(1) Note. Data processing where jobs are executed on a computer immediately after they are received by the system is properly classified here, however, interpreters which
interpret and execute one instruction at a time are classified elsewhere. See the SEE OR SEARCH CLASS notes below.
(2) Note. Subject matter of this subclass may include transaction processing and job processing between multiple processors, computers, or digital data processing systems and may involve user intervention.
(3) Note. The term "batch" historically takes on slightly different meaning depending on the scale of the data processing system. In a microcomputer a stored batch file contains a "batch" of operating system commands to be executed automatically when the batch file is invoked. On larger systems, jobs and their associated data are typically collected and stored for later processing as a "batch".
(4) Note. This subclass is directed to process transactions, per se. Database transaction processing and business transaction processing are classified elsewhere. See the SEE OR SEARCH CLASS noted below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
395, Information Processing System Organization, 705+, for compilers and program code translators, per se.
705, Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, or Cost/Price Determination,
7+, for operations research, per se, including systems directed to generalized linear programming problem solving and cost function analysis, resource allocating in business transaction processing and scheduling of interrelated processes.
707, Data Processing-Database and File Management, Data Structures, or Document Processing,
1+, for database accessing and control.
712, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Processing Architecture and Instruction Processing (e.g., Processors),
220+, for interpreters which interpret and execute one instruction at a time.
