| 6735769 |
Apparatus and method for initial load balancing in a multiple run queue system |
| May-11-2004 |
Apparatus and methods for initial load balancing in a multiple run queue system are provided. The apparatus includes a controller, memory, initial load balancing device, idle load balancing device, periodic... |
| 6725332 |
Hierarchical priority filter with integrated serialization for determining the entry with the highest priority in a buffer memory |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A storage device and a method for determining the entry with the highest priority in a buffer memory. The method is characterized by the steps of operating a plurality of priority subfilter circuits each... |
| 6725249 |
Method for economically sub-optimizing interactions in data communications network environments, and a device according to the method |
| Apr-20-2004 |
A method for sub-optimizing interactions in data communications network environments. The method includes the steps of deeming certain activities which involve interactions between a user and a data communication... |
| 6721789 |
Scheduling storage accesses for rate-guaranteed and non-rate-guaranteed requests |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A system for managing storage accesses for rate guaranteed continuous multimedia data streams and non-rate-guaranteed storage requests may include a plurality of rate guaranteed requestors for multimedia... |
| 6721778 |
Unscheduled event task processing system |
| Apr-13-2004 |
A task processing system such as a telephony call center and telephony call center management system downloads and processes unscheduled events such as inbound and outbound call records, in real time.... |
| 6718360 |
Providing predictable scheduling of programs using a repeating precomputed schedule |
| Apr-6-2004 |
The present invention provides predictable scheduling of programs using a repeating precomputed schedule. In a preferred embodiment, a scheduler accesses an activity scheduling graph. The activity scheduling... |
| 6714997 |
Method and means for enhanced interpretive instruction execution for a new integrated communications adapter using a queued direct input-output device |
| Mar-30-2004 |
Method and means to provide a mechanism by which a hypervisor can permit a real machine to interpretively execute certain I/O instructions independently of the value of an I-bit in the subchannel. This... |
| 6714961 |
Multiple job signals per processing unit in a multiprocessing system |
| Mar-30-2004 |
The invention is directed toward a multiprocessing system having multiple processing units. For at least one of the processing units in the multiprocessing system, a first job signal is assigned to the... |
| 6714960 |
Earnings-based time-share scheduling |
| Mar-30-2004 |
A precise earnings-based time-share scheduler schedules multiple jobs in a computer system by apportioning earnings, at scheduler ticks. Earnings are apportioned to jobs based on actual time a job spent... |
| 6708197 |
Method of driving timer in an advanced intelligent network switching system employing the thread call structure under UNIX system |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method for providing an AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) switching system employing a thread call structure with timers for threads by providing a plurality of timer items respectively for the produced... |
| 6707792 |
Overload reduction in a communication system |
| Mar-16-2004 |
A method and apparatus for reducing overload conditions of a node of communication system is disclosed. One or more pairs of predefined upper and lower overload threshold values are stored. A rejection... |
| 6701371 |
Data transfer method for matching upper protocal layer to high speed serial bus |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A data transfer method for matching an upper protocol layer to a high speed serial bus. In the data transfer method, it is determined whether transfer data to be transferred from the upper protocol layer... |
| 6701205 |
System integration based on time-dependent periodic complexity |
| Mar-2-2004 |
A processing system having time-dependent combinatorial complexity is converted into a system having time-dependent periodic complexity. Consequently, system reliability is increased and system design... |
| 6684280 |
Task based priority arbitration |
| Jan-27-2004 |
A digital system and method of operation is provided in which several processors (1400, 1402, 1404) are connected to a shared resource (1432). Each processor has an access priority register (1410) that... |
| 6681270 |
Effective channel priority processing for transfer controller with hub and ports |
| Jan-20-2004 |
A data transfer controller with hub and ports uses an effective channel priority processing technique and algorithm. Data transfer requests are queued in a first-in-first-out fashion at the data source... |
| 6668269 |
Computer system process scheduler determining and executing processes based upon changeable priorities |
| Dec-23-2003 |
A computer-system fixed-priority process scheduler that is supported by an operating system (OS) and establishes fixed priorities respectively corresponding to a plurality of processes to be scheduled.... |
| 6667975 |
Port aggregation load balancing |
| Dec-23-2003 |
Provided are methods, apparatuses and systems for balancing the load of data transmissions through a port aggregation. The methods and apparatuses of the present invention allocate port assignments based... |
| 6665868 |
Optimizing host application presentation space recognition events through matching prioritization |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing recognition of presentation space data. Presentation space data is sent from a legacy host application to a workstation. A workstation application... |
| 6665746 |
System and method for prioritized context switching for streaming data memory transfers |
| Dec-16-2003 |
Method of streaming data transfers from scattered locations or to a gathered location in a memory, including the steps of manipulating the transfer of data between memory devices by processing, an element... |
| 6665716 |
Method of analyzing delay factor in job system |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A delay factor in a processing in a job system in which an ordered series of jobs are executed in computers assigned to respective jobs, is efficiently detected, and the delay factor is analyzed in detail... |
| 6665699 |
Method and data processing system providing processor affinity dispatching |
| Dec-16-2003 |
A processor in a data processing system having multiple cache memories performs cache memory or processor module affinity dispatchin. Processes awaiting dispatch are stored in prioritized queues. Each... |
| 6662204 |
Thread control system and method in a computer system |
| Dec-9-2003 |
The executing threads in CPU 100.about.103 are checked at random intervals in a specified range by interrupt execution modules 109.about.112, the results of the checks are stored in executing thread memory... |
| 6662203 |
Batch-wise handling of signals in a processing system |
| Dec-9-2003 |
The present invention relates to multiprocessing systems in which signals or processes are scheduled in order of their priority level. The invention is based on batch-wise acceptance and scheduling of... |
| 6662057 |
Method and device for controlling processes in a computer system |
| Dec-9-2003 |
A computer system and method for executing several processes in tandem, that includes a scarce resource, which is accessed by the processes to be executed. A first device is provided for computing the... |
| 6658522 |
Method to reduce overhead associated with system I/O in a multiprocessor computer system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
Featured is a method for reducing overhead associated with system input output (I/O) operations in a computer system having a plurality of processors and a physical memory accessed and used by the plurality... |
| 6658485 |
Dynamic priority-based scheduling in a message queuing system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A method, system, and computer-readable code with which a scheduling system can be implemented that allows a sender and a receiver to change priorities of queued messages. A technique is also defined for... |
| 6658449 |
Apparatus and method for periodic load balancing in a multiple run queue system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
An apparatus and methods for periodic load balancing in a multiple run queue system are provided. The apparatus includes a controller, memory, initial load balancing device, idle load balancing device,... |
| 6658447 |
Priority based simultaneous multi-threading |
| Dec-2-2003 |
A simultaneous multi-threaded architecture combines OS priority information with thread execution heuristics to provide dynamic priorities for selecting thread instructions for processing. The dynamic... |
| 6651242 |
High performance computing system for distributed applications over a computer |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A system that includes one or more priority failure detectors may be included that detect node or process failures in the distributed computer network. The system has a fault-tolerant, client-server architecture... |
| 6651158 |
Determination of approaching instruction starvation of threads based on a plurality of conditions |
| Nov-18-2003 |
In a multi-threaded processor, thread priority variables are set up in memory. According to an embodiment of the present invention, several conditions are monitored so as to determine an indication of... |
| 6651081 |
Method and apparatus for processing a high priority resource request in a system using a set of shared resources |
| Nov-18-2003 |
A method and apparatus for prioritizing the use of multifunctional printing system's basic processing resources to allow a high priority job to gain immediate access to a shared resource. The printing... |
| 6647441 |
Method of maximizing servicing capability of large numbers of I/O descriptors |
| Nov-11-2003 |
The present invention comprises an efficient and portable method and algorithm module for servicing large numbers of IO descriptors which may interface to a large network environment or to a large number... |
| 6640299 |
Method and apparatus for arbitrating access to a computational engine for use in a video graphics controller |
| Oct-28-2003 |
A method and apparatus for arbitrating access to a computation engine includes processing that begins by determining, for a given clock cycle of the computation engine, whether at least one operation code... |
| 6640261 |
Method and apparatus for scheduler coupled to memory array wherein scheduler addresses array with at least a portion of an identification number |
| Oct-28-2003 |
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit that has the capability to schedule transferring processes that have an individual identification... |
| 6637026 |
Instruction reducing predicate copy |
| Oct-21-2003 |
When compiling software for a processor that supports predication, an alerting instruction can be inserted to alert a global register allocator to map particular virtual predicates into the same physical... |
| 6633897 |
Method and system for scheduling threads within a multiprocessor data processing system using an affinity scheduler |
| Oct-14-2003 |
A method and system for establishing a priority order of threads executed within a multiprocessor data processing system are disclosed. The priority order of threads is maintained on a global queue within... |
| 6631422 |
Network adapter utilizing a hashing function for distributing packets to multiple processors for parallel processing |
| Oct-7-2003 |
Network input processing is distributed to multiple CPUs on multiprocessor systems to improve network throughput and take advantage of MP scalability. Packets are received by the network adapter and are... |
| 6631009 |
Avoiding deadlock situations in a printing system using a locking time-out mechanism |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A document printing system involves multi-threaded processing of a document object. A deadlock situation between a preprocessing thread and a cancellation thread can be averted with a time-out locking... |
| 6628669 |
LAN relaying/switching apparatus |
| Sep-30-2003 |
In a LAN relaying/switching apparatus which can guarantee data to be transmitted, a predetermined amount of transmission line bandwidth is set to a bandwidth control queue unit for a the data flows with... |
| 6625636 |
Job protection within a distributed processing system having subsystem downtime |
| Sep-23-2003 |
A job scheduler module for a distributed processing system is provided with capability to protect jobs from planned or unplanned subsystem downtimes. The approach includes determining a downtime for a... |
| 6614440 |
System and method for load balancing in a multi-channel graphics system |
| Sep-2-2003 |
A pull-model system and method provides display data over a network to a plurality of display devices having the same or different video format requirements. Utilization of image memory bandwidth is balanced... |
| 6609145 |
User selectable priority for disk array background operations |
| Aug-19-2003 |
A new and improved apparatus and method for rebuilding a replacement disk of a fault tolerant, mass storage drive array subsystem of a computer system. The method calls for a microprocessor to check a... |
| 6606164 |
Technique for controlling the execution of an action in a low layer system by a high layer system |
| Aug-12-2003 |
In a network system in which a request of executing a process is sent from the higher level system to the lower level system, a time period of not executing a requested job is assured in the lower level... |
| 6604124 |
Systems and methods for automatically managing work flow based on tracking job step completion status |
| Aug-5-2003 |
A system is disclosed that includes one or more "HOME"s where there is a (1) "DAD" computer and software system for human User interaction to initiate Jobs (Transcription, Translation, Data Entry, and... |
| 6591287 |
Method to increase the efficiency of job sequencing from sequential storage |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A method and apparatus for scheduling jobs having a staging time and a processing time are described. In one method, the jobs are divided into subsets based on a predetermined criteria such as depending... |
| 6591262 |
Collaborative workload management incorporating work unit attributes in resource allocation |
| Jul-8-2003 |
A collaborative workload management system comprises a workload scheduler cooperable with a schedule to submit work units for processing on a computer system according to the schedule; and a workload manager... |
| 6587932 |
Processor and system for controlling shared access to a memory |
| Jul-1-2003 |
Several peripheral entities, each of which is clocked by its own internal clock signal, can access a memory that is a single-access memory. A priority entity is defined from among the peripheral entities,... |
| 6587894 |
Apparatus for detecting data collision on data bus for out-of-order memory accesses with access execution time based in part on characterization data specific to memory |
| Jul-1-2003 |
According to the present invention, a system for reordering commands to achieve an optimal command sequence based on a target response restriction is disclosed. A data queue coupled to a command queue... |
| 6587865 |
Locally made, globally coordinated resource allocation decisions based on information provided by the second-price auction model |
| Jul-1-2003 |
In a computer system, a method and apparatus for scheduling activities' access to a resource with minimal involvement of the kernel of the operating system. More specifically, a "next bid" is maintained,... |
| 6584488 |
Controlling allocation of system resources with an enhanced priority calculation |
| Jun-24-2003 |
A method and system for controlling the allocation of a data processing system's resources among two or more components competing for the resources. An internal system value is modified to yield a modified... |
