Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Stephen Laitinen

Timothy Siorek

A method and system for processing timers are presented in which a plurality of unordered timer lists may be kept according to timer duration. At least one timer list is processed selectively according to a counter associated with the timer list. The method and system reduce the processing overhead associated with timers via the selective processing of the list, and further result in little or no overhead increase as the number of active timers increases. A system is also provided for processing timers, which may include multiple timer lists.

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