For certain operations executed in a multiprocessor system, the processors communicate with one another by exchanging requests and acknowledgements. To improve performance, the invention proposes a method by which the operations which require sending of multiple requests proceed without taking into account...http://www.google.de/patents/US5367693?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5367693 - System for dialog among processors and dispatching processes to processors which monitors the number of acknowledgements to processing requests
