Method for transmitting data from a first processing unit having a relatively large memory capacity to a second processing unit having a relatively small memory capacity

• US 5,926,623 A
• Filed: 01/02/1997
• Issued: 07/20/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Oshiyama, Takashi, Tsukakoshi, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Dung C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, QUOC KHANH
• Application Number:
  US08/778,317
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.3, 395/200.61, 395/200.62, 395/200.47, 395/200.58, 395/200.32, 364/231.1, 364/231.2, 364/231.3, 364/231.31, 364/243.1, 707/1, 707/104
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4027 using bus bridges G06F13/4022 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/0225 User interface arrangements, e.g. keyboard, display; Interfaces to other computer systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

A data transmission method for transmitting data from a first processing unit having a relatively large memory capacity to a second processing unit having a relatively small memory capacity. The method has steps of (a) retrieving data stored in a first memory device, (b) storing in a temporary file only a record, from the retrieved data, relating to a predetermined time period including a current date; (c) determining whether or not the size of the temporary file is within the capacity of a second, smaller capacity, memory device; and (d) transferring the temporary file to the second processing unit in response to an affirmative result of the step (c), or not transferring the temporary file to the second processing unit in response to a negative result of the step (c).

Claims

1. A method for transmitting data from a first processing unit having a first memory device with a relatively large memory capacity to a second processing unit have a second memory device with a relatively small memory capacity, comprising the steps of:

(a) retrieving data stored in said first memory device, each record in said data including date information;

(b) extracting a predetermined date information field from each record one by one among said retrieved data;

(c) determining whether the extracted data satisfies a predetermined time period;

(d) storing in a temporary file only a record, from said retrieved data, relating to a predetermined time period including a current date only if the extracted data satisfied the predetermined time period;

(e) determining whether or not the size of said temporary file is within the capacity of said second memory device; and

(f) transferring said temporary file to said second processing unit in response to an affirmative result of the step (e), or not transferring said temporary file to said second processing unit in response to a negative result of the step (e).

2. The method of claim 1, further including the following step after step (d):

determining whether or not an unprocessed record is present in a data file and performing step (e) only in response to a determination that there is no unprocessed record in said data file.