Error classification and correction system

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION: A SOURCE FOR SUPPLYING SIGNALS MANIFESTING A PLURALITY OF PROGRAMS OF INSTRUCTIONS, INCLUDING A FIRST PROGRAM AND A NUMBER OF SECOND PROGRAMS; EXECUTING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SOURCE, AND OPERATIVE IN RESPONSE TO SAID SIGNALS, FOR EXECUTING IN STEPS, INCLUDING A SPECIFIED STEP WHICH MAY BE DIFFERENT FOR EACH INSTRUCTION, EACH INSTRUCTION SUPPLIED BY SAID SOURCE; INDICATING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST MEANS FOR INDICATING AS ERROR SIGNALS THE OCCURRENCE OF ERRORS DURING THE EXECUTION OF AN INSTRUCTION BY SUCH EXECUTING MEANS; COMPUTING MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID EXECUTING AND INDICATING MEANS FOR COMPARING SAID SPECIFIED STEPS WITH THE OCCURRENCE OF SELECTED ERROR SIGNALS AND SUPPLYING FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD SETS OF RESULT SIGNALS INDICATIVE OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH COMPARISON; AND MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID COMPARISON MEANS, SAID EXECUTING MEANS, AND SAID SOURCE MEANS AUTOMATICALLY OPERABLE IN A PLURALITY OF CASES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESULT SIGNALS FROM SAID COMPARING MEANS TO CAUSE THE EXECUTING MEANS TO REPEAT THE SUPPLIED INSTRUCTION IN RESPONSE TO SAID FIRST SET OF RESULT SIGNALS, REPEAT A PART OF SAID FIRST PROGRAM IN RESPONSE TO SAID SECOND SET OF RESULT SIGNALS AND TO CAUSE THE SOURCE OF SUPPLY ONE OF SAID SECOND PROGRAMS TO SAID EXECUTION MEANS IN RESPONSE TO SAID THIRD SET OF RESULT SIGNALS.