| 6983461 |
Method and system for deadlock detection and avoidance |
| Jan-3-2006 |
The invention relates to a method of operating a computer system supporting multiple processes, and the intention is to avoid deadlock (an example of which is where process A owns resource A, and is waiting... |
| 6981260 |
Apparatus for minimizing lock contention in a multiple processor system with multiple run queues when determining the threads priorities |
| Dec-27-2005 |
Apparatus and methods are provided for selecting a thread to dispatch in a multiple processor system having a global run queue associated with each multiple processor node and having a local run queue... |
| 6981258 |
Process scheduler without long overhead and large memory and scheduling method used therein |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A process scheduling system has plural process schedulers respectively associated with plural user process groups each having at least one user process and selectively activated so as to search the associated... |
| 6981050 |
Digital remote recorder |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A method and system for recording and publishing traditional media source programs over a network is disclosed. According to the method, a request for publication of one or more traditional media source... |
| 6978459 |
System and method for processing overlapping tasks in a programmable network processor environment |
| Dec-20-2005 |
A system and method process data elements on multiple processing elements. A first processing element processes a task. A second processing element, coupled to the first processing element, is associated... |
| 6976258 |
Providing quality of service guarantees to virtual hosts |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A method facilitates providing appropriate quality of service guarantees to a plurality of virtual hosts on a single physical host computer. A server application program and its child processes service... |
| 6976256 |
Pipeline processing type shaping apparatus and its method |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A pipeline processing type shaping apparatus and method in which strict shaping processing can also be implemented for a connection at various speed by adding a simplified circuit configuration. A cache... |
| 6976095 |
Port blocking technique for maintaining receive packet ordering for a multiple ethernet port switch |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A network processor that has multiple processing elements, each supporting multiple simultaneous program threads with access to shared resources in an interface. Packet data is received from ports in segments... |
| 6976072 |
Method and apparatus for managing job queues |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A queue manager monitors status of a server queue in a network server and status of a device queue in a peripheral device at the same time. A user interface displays the status of jobs in the server queue... |
| 6973653 |
Method for utilizing resource characterizations to optimize performance in an electronic device |
| Dec-6-2005 |
A method for providing optimal performance in an electronic device comprises at least one resource characterization that includes resource requirements for executing a requested process. An allocation... |
| 6973651 |
Method and system for managing subsystem processes in a DMD system |
| Dec-6-2005 |
Aspects for managing subsystem processes from a central site in a digital media distributor system are presented. The aspects include utilizing a plurality of threads as a task manager in a central site... |
| 6971103 |
Inter-thread communications using shared interrupt register |
| Nov-29-2005 |
A multithreaded processor includes an interrupt controller for processing a cross-thread interrupt directed from a requesting thread to a destination thread. The interrupt controller in an illustrative... |
| 6971100 |
State based object transition control and nested locking |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Temporary states are used transitionally in run-time situations and are unknown to the object database. A temporary state is created if, when an object is performing a requested event, interim work needs... |
| 6971099 |
Integrated circuits for multi-tasking support in single or multiple processor networks |
| Nov-29-2005 |
An integrated circuit (7A) for multitasking support for processing unit (1A) holds control variables for each task (or activity) to run on its associated processor (1A) and identifies... |
| 6971098 |
Method and apparatus for managing transaction requests in a multi-node architecture |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatus for managing transaction requests in a multi-node architecture. In one embodiment, a previously received ordered group request may be... |
| 6971097 |
Method and apparatus for implementing concurrently running jobs on an extended virtual machine using different heaps managers |
| Nov-29-2005 |
Methods and apparatus for implementing a virtual machine that supports the execution of more than one application per virtual machine process are described. According to one aspect of the present invention,... |
| 6967730 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer readable program, and storage medium product storing computer readable program |
| Nov-22-2005 |
When users employ a printer driver having the function of automatically selecting a development mode, the invention is intended to make the function of automatically selecting a development mode more convenient... |
| 6965961 |
Queue-based spin lock with timeout |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A queue-based spin lock with timeout allows a thread to obtain contention-free mutual exclusion in fair, FIFO order, or to abandon its attempt and time out. A thread may handshake with other threads to... |
| 6964048 |
Method for dynamic loaning in rate monotonic real-time systems |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for sharing execution capacity among tasks executing in a real-time computing system. The present invention extends RMA techniques for characterizing system timing... |
| 6964047 |
Method and apparatus for a fast process monitor suitable for a high availability system |
| Nov-8-2005 |
An application initiates a parent process (102) to begin executing the application. The parent process (102) creates a child process (104) to execute the application. The parent monitors... |
| 6964046 |
System and method for scheduling a future event |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method for setting timers is disclosed in which an array is maintained, each element of which represents a period of time. Events which are to occur within the time period associated with the array element... |
| 6963785 |
Method for target queue time calculation in semiconductor manufacturing planning |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method is provided for product culmination estimation in a microelectronics manufacturing environment. The method includes providing a manufacturing executing system including a plurality of processing... |
| 6961936 |
Apparatus and method for controlling stored jobs |
| Nov-1-2005 |
An apparatus and method for controlling stored jobs, in a system of networked MFPs, includes an MFP with a printer for printing stored jobs. A storage device is connected to the printer for storing jobs.... |
| 6961632 |
Signal processing apparatus |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A signal processing apparatus includes an input attribute determination section for determining an input attribute representing at least one of a type of an audio codec, a sampling frequency and a number... |
| 6957436 |
Method and system for multi-threaded object loading and unloading |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method for controlling a table containing a list of active objects. The table is accessed by one or more threads in a multi-threaded computing environment. The method comprising the steps of mutex locking... |
| 6957434 |
Distributed computing system |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A distributed computing system having a plurality of computers different from each other in performance, load, and type, uniformly manages local priority schemes adapted in the respective computers by... |
| 6957433 |
System and method for adaptive performance optimization of data processing systems |
| Oct-18-2005 |
The present invention relates to a system and method for allocating and forecasting computational effort from a plurality of service components among a plurality of workloads. Preferably, processing power... |
| 6957432 |
Real-time scheduler |
| Oct-18-2005 |
Methods and computer-executable components for real-time scheduling of CPU resources are disclosed. A performance counter determines when to allocate CPU resources to a thread. When it is time to allocate... |
| 6957431 |
System for incrementally computing the maximum cost extension allowable for subsequent execution of each task using fixed percentage of the associated cost |
| Oct-18-2005 |
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for improving scheduling of tasks in systems that accumulate execution time. An upper bound is computed on the amount of additional... |
| 6957430 |
Method for managing multimedia platform resources and multimedia platform for implementing it |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method and an apparatus for managing signal-processing resources of a multimedia platform that is designed for applying signal-processing operations to multimedia signals defines multimedia functions... |
| 6952827 |
User program and operating system interface in a multithreaded environment |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method and system that prepares a task for being swapped out from processor utilization that is executing on a computer with multiple processors that each support multiple streams. The task has one or... |
| 6952826 |
Method for implementing a multi-level system model for deterministically handling selected data |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method for implementing a multi-level system model for deterministically handling selected data comprises a picokernel module that invokes an isochronous scheduler to select, schedule, and execute active... |
| 6952825 |
Concurrent timed digital system design method and environment |
| Oct-4-2005 |
The present invention relates to the design of an essentially digital system. As one example of digital systems, these may perform real-time transformations on time discrete digitized samples of analogue... |
| 6952824 |
Multi-threaded sequenced receive for fast network port stream of packets |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method of processing network data in a network processor includes using three or more threads to process a beginning portion, a middle portion, and an end portion of data packet. The first thread processes... |
| 6952732 |
Method and apparatus for multi-contact scheduling |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A method and apparatus for generating an agent schedule for a multi-contact center that has immediate queues and deferred queues. In one embodiment, a method includes scheduling software receiving a plurality... |
| 6951019 |
Execution control for processor tasks |
| Sep-27-2005 |
Method and means for controlling the execution sequence of a first sequence of modules in a first task. The first sequence of modules are linked to one another and have at least one sequence of execution.... |
| 6948171 |
Apparatus, system and method for active scheduling of time based event-driven long running processes |
| Sep-20-2005 |
An apparatus, system and method for active scheduling of event-driven long running processes are provided. The apparatus, system and method receive update information indicating a change in status of a... |
| 6948170 |
Computer and computer-readable storage medium for command interpretation |
| Sep-20-2005 |
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a computer incorporating a multitasking operating system such as a UNIX-based OS, wherein recursively invokable function calling statements and... |
| 6947964 |
Network control apparatus and method |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A network information management unit in which a memory resource that requires the storage of a network information management database is utilized in distributed fashion, as a result of which a single... |
| 6944862 |
Method and system for scheduling execution of activities |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A method (300) and system for scheduling execution of activities, such as jobs of a batch processing. An estimated duration of each job is predicted (365-367) as a running average of the measured... |
| 6941554 |
True parallel client server system and method |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A software system to provide a true-parallel, client-server system comprises a server 52. The server 52 comprises any suitable system for using and supporting an operating system 54.... |
| 6941365 |
Computer resource allocation layout description |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention discloses a method for maximizing overall system performance among a set of computer systems which periodically run a set of jobs. It is known that some allocations of jobs to computer systems... |
| 6940864 |
Network access traffic sorter |
| Sep-6-2005 |
Packetized voice, video, and data traffic (data frames) are received in a communication traffic sorter. The data frames have a dispatch priority corresponding to their transmission characteristics (flow)... |
| 6938255 |
Process, modules and switching center for identifying processes as well as their data and resources |
| Aug-30-2005 |
In a process for identifying a process (P1) and its resources, the process (P1) is provided with a first identifier (PID1) that unambiguously identifies the process (P1) and its... |
| 6938253 |
Multiprocessor communication system and method |
| Aug-30-2005 |
To facilitate inter-processor communication between multiple processors in a computer system and to enable the accessing of a dual port memory, or other system resources, without requiring the memory or... |
| 6938252 |
Hardware-assisted method for scheduling threads using data cache locality |
| Aug-30-2005 |
A method is provided for scheduling threads in a multi-processor system. In a first structure thread ids are stored for threads associated with a context switch. Each thread id identifies one thread. In... |
| 6938130 |
Method and apparatus for delaying interfering accesses from other threads during transactional program execution |
| Aug-30-2005 |
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates delaying interfering memory accesses from other threads during transactional execution. During transactional execution of a block... |
| 6934950 |
Thread dispatcher for multi-threaded communication library |
| Aug-23-2005 |
Method, computer program product, and apparatus for efficiently dispatching threads in a multi-threaded communication library which become runnable by completion of an event. Each thread has a thread-specific... |
| 6934947 |
Visual tool for developing real time task management code |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A tool for developing software code for real time system allows the user to structure scheduling of multi-tasking operations into a polling loop without the complexity of a hand-crafted polling loop, while... |
| 6934936 |
Apparatus and method for adaptive address-based historical utilization recording |
| Aug-23-2005 |
An apparatus and method for recording segment execution times in a processing system are provided. The method includes the steps of recording a timestamp corresponding to the beginning of a segment to... |
