Patent ID: 7660927

Claim:
A method to control access to stored information, comprising the steps of: supplying a control unit in communication with a computing device and in communication with stored information, wherein said control unit comprises a multi-path locking facility (“MPLF”); requesting by said computing device access to said stored information; determining if access to said stored information has become available; operative when access to said stored information becomes available: reserving a communication pathway interconnecting said control unit and said requesting computing device, thereby disallowing the sending of non-MPLF interrupts via that reserved communication pathway; providing a MPLF attention interrupt and message to said computing device, using said reserved communication pathway, granting access to said stored information; establishing a suppression mitigation protocol, whereunder a non-MPLF unsolicited status may be sent to said computing device using said reserved communication pathway; determining whether to implement said suppression mitigation protocol; operative if said suppression mitigation protocol is implemented, providing non-MPLF unsolicited status to said computing device using said reserved communication pathway.