(under subclass 100) Subject matter in which the allocation of memory space is specified or the layout is automatically determined.
(1) Note. Configuration at booting via software is classified elsewhere in this class. See the SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS notes below.
(2) Note. Assigning operating characteristics to peripherals is classified elsewhere in this class. See the SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS notes below.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
395, Information Processing System Organization, subclass 200.5 for network computer configuring; subclasses 670+ for task management, per se, in particular subclass 674 for resource allocation (e.g., deciding how best to use the available resources to get the job done) and subclasses 677 and 678 for multi-tasking and context switching.
707, Data Processing: Database and File Management, Data Structures, or Document Processing,
1+, for database management and file management systems including significant addressing, retrieval, or manipulation of information contained within a database of a digital data processing system or computer including searching, query processing, information locating and retrieval techniques from a file or database; and subclasses 200+ for file maintenance operations, allocating or deallocating memory space to files, garbage collection, and hierarchical or tree filling systems.
710, Electrical Computers and Digital Data Processing Systems: Input/Output, 8+, for assigning operating characteristics to peripherals or peripheral configuring and subclass 104 for utilizing a hardware structure for providing to a digital data processing system component the arrangement of the digital data processing system including characteristics of the digital data processing system's components.
712, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Processing Architectures and Instruction Processing (e.g.,
Processors),
228, for processing control and instruction processing for context preserving, subclass 229 for processing control and instruction processing for mode switch or change.
713, Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Support,
1+, for digital data processing system initialization or configuration ( e.g., initializing, set up, configuration, or resetting) allocating extended or expanded memory, specifying device driver, path, file, buffer, disk management, etc.; subclass 100 for reconfiguring of system setting, per se.
714, Error Detection/Correction and Fault Detection/Recovery,
3+, for reconfiguring in the event of a fault under fault recovery, reliability, and availability.
