Priority in a portable thread environment

Details Priority in a portable thread environment Priority in a portable thread environment

2005-06-07

2005-06-07

Banankhah, Majid (Department: 2127)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Task management or control

Process scheduling

C718S100000, C718S103000, C719S328000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06904595

ABSTRACT:
A portable thread environment comprising: an application programming interface configured to support multiple application program tasks, wherein each task is either a preemptive task comprised of preemptive threads or a cooperative task comprised of cooperative threads; host adaptation logic for communicatively interfacing said cooperative tasks, preemptive tasks, cooperative threads and preemptive threads with a host processing environment; a scheduler configured to determine an execution order of cooperative threads and preemptive threads based on each cooperative thread's and preemptive thread's priority levels.

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