Method and apparatus for providing a state machine operating...

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2006-01-10

2006-01-10

Courtenay, III, St. John (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Event handling or event notification

C719S313000, C700S001000

Reexamination Certificate

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06986146

ABSTRACT:
A software state event machine for software based process control systems permits state and events to be unified within a common set of data structures for one or more tasks sharing common state numbers. This method reduces overall memory requirements in systems with extensive states and events among multiple tasks.

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