Owner Oracle International Corporation

Inventors Christfort, Jacob; Chone, Jeremy

Agent Pizzeys

Pub. Number AU-B-2001290686

PCT Pub. Number WO02/21338

Priority 60/948,057 05.09.01 US; 60/230,489 06.09.00 US

Filing date 6 September 2001

Wipo publication date 22 March 2002

Acceptance publication date 17 May 2007

G06F 17/30 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions - Information retrieval

G06F 9/44 (2006.01) Arrangements for programme control, e.g. control unit - Arrangements for executing specific programmes

G06F 12/00 (2006.01) Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures

G06F 13/00 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units

G06F 15/16 (2006.01) Digital computers in general - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a programme unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programmes

G06F 15/173 (2006.01) Digital computers in general

G06F 17/00 (2006.01) Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions

H04L 29/08 (2006.01) Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups - Transmission control procedure, e.g. data link level control procedure