e/Asynchronous method invocation

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has gloss	eng: In (multithreaded) object-oriented programming, asynchronous method invocation (AMI), also known as asynchronous method calls or asynchronous pattern is a design pattern for asynchronous invocation of potentially long-running methods of an object. It is equivalent to the IOU pattern described in 1996 by Allan Vermeulen. The event-based asynchronous pattern in .NET Framework and the java.util.concurrent.FutureTask class in Java use events to solve the same problem. This pattern is a variant of AMI whose implementation carries more overhead, but it is useful for objects representing software components.
lexicalization	eng: Asynchronous method invocation
instance of	c/Software design patterns