Real-Time Innovations, Inc.

Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut

Gerardo Pardo-Castellote

Rajive Joshi

Mark L Hamilton

Stephen Jisoo Rhee

Elaine Yee Ting Sin

Henry Choi

A method of providing transports for a data distribution middleware over a plurality of transport networks is provided. A data distribution middleware with a pluggable transport layer is provided. A plurality of transport plugins in the transport layer are provided. Aliases are assigned to each of the transport plugins of the plurality of transport plugins, wherein at least one of the transport plugins of the plurality of transport plugins has a plurality of aliases.

Flexible mechanism for implementing the middleware of a data distribution system over multiple transport networks

Techniques for execution of multiple threads in a multithreaded computing programming environment are disclosed. The techniques are especially well suited for environments that use multilayered programming architecture where a higher layer can build on the functions provided by a lower layer where the delay time is an important consideration. In one aspect, the conceptual notion of a 'Worker' effectively serves to represent the thread-specific execution context for a thread of execution ('thread') in a multithreaded computing environment. Another aspect, provides the notion of an Exclusion Area (EA) as logical lock that serves to protect shared resources in a multithreaded environment. The combination of the worker and EA are used to provide a powerful framework that, among other things, allows minimizing of the delay time.

Framework for executing multiple threads and sharing resources in a multithreaded computer programming environment

A real-time protocol for real-time network programming applications is disclosed. The protocol is executable on a computer network having a plurality of nodes that include applications, a network stack, an operating system, and middleware capable of executing real-time operations. The protocol can use group objects to model physical and logical devices connected to the network wherein each group object comprises at least one variable. Changes in these variables are encapsulated in variable change messages which are propagated in the network using communication objects. Also described is a real-time messaging format useful for implementing the protocol.

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Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut