Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac – Task management or control – Process scheduling
Reexamination Certificate
2003-08-29
2009-02-24
An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2195)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac
Task management or control
Process scheduling
C718S102000, C718S103000, C712S216000, C712S219000, C712S220000, C712S228000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07496921
ABSTRACT:
A processing block is equipped with a storage to facilitate storage and maintenance of a thread switching structure to provide multi-threading support in a light-weight manner. In various embodiments, the structure includes a current thread identifier, and a thread array of thread entries describing the threads to be executed interleavingly. Further, in various embodiments, the processing block includes an execution sub-block and a thread management sub-block equipped to support at least a create thread, a thread execution termination, and a thread execution switching instruction.
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An Meng-Ai
Intel Corporation
Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt P.C.
To Jennifer N
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