Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing control – Context preserving (e.g. – context swapping – checkpointing,...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-11
2010-02-02
Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing control
Context preserving (e.g., context swapping, checkpointing,...
Reexamination Certificate
active
07657728
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining an accurate program-visible machine state of a computer. A backup system and method is provided in order to return the visual state of the computer to a previous state if an instruction generates an exception. In an embodiment, a first tag and a second tag are received from a tag queue concurrently. First data, which is associated with the first tag, is received and stored in a first register associated with the first tag. Second data, which is associated with the second tag, is sent from a second register associated with the second tag to a backup queue.
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Coleman Eric
Seiko Epson Corporation
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
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