Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Task management or control
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-30
2010-10-19
Nguyen, Van H (Department: 2194)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Task management or control
C710S052000, C710S056000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07818744
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for redundant transient fault detection. In one embodiment, the method includes the replication of an application into two communicating threads, a leading thread and a trailing thread. The trailing thread may repeat computations performed by the leading thread to detect transient faults, referred to herein as “soft errors.” A first in, first out (FIFO) buffer of shared memory is reserved for passing data between the leading thread and the trailing thread. The FIFO buffer may include a buffer head variable to write data to the FIFO buffer and a buffer tail variable to read data from the FIFO buffer. In one embodiment, data passing between the leading thread data buffering is restricted according to a data unit size and thread synchronization between a leading thread and the trailing thread is limited to buffer overflow/underflow detection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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Wang Cheng C.
Wu Youfeng
Blakely , Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
Intel Corporation
Nguyen Van H
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