Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Lars B Plum

Bahman Zargham

Viral Shah

Minoo Gupta

Anoop Sharma

Robert S Shaw

Sudhir Radhakrishna Shetiya

Jim Uren

Sylvia Chan

There is provided a computer-executed method of freeing memory. One exemplary method comprises receiving a message from a user process. The message may specify a virtual address for a memory segment. The virtual address may be mapped to the memory segment. The memory segment may comprise a physical page. The method may further comprise identifying the physical page based on the virtual address. Additionally, the method may comprise freeing the physical page without unmapping the memory segment.

System and method for freeing memory

A computing environment ( ) includes multiple CPUs ( ), multiple nonshared memory spaces and a means for implementing a select system call ( ). The connection maintenance system is both fault-tolerant and scalable in that agents ( ) exist independently in each nonshared memory space to handle interprocess connections between memory

Method and apparatus for supporting a select () system call and interprocess communication in a fault-tolerant, scalable distributed computer environment

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Lars B Plum