Intel Corporation

Thomas R Craver

Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall

Louis A Lippincott

Mannan Abdul Mohammed

Chihuan Michael Lin

Lani Jean Tan

A method is described that includes performing the following with a single instruction: receiving a first input operand V; receiving a second input operand S; calculating V&#x2212;S; determining if V&#x2212;S is positive or negative; and, providing as a resultant: V if V&#x2212;S is negative; V&#x2212;S if V&#x2212;S is positive.

Apparatus and method for an instruction that determines whether a value is within a range

A technique to provide low branch-mispredict for MPEG run length encoding. Packed data instructions are used to reorder data when loading into registers. A bitmask is then created to identify zero and non-zero values. An index is generated from the bitmask and locations of the non-zero values are determined. Subsequently, the run-length of the zeros are calculated to encode the data for output based on one of the MPEG standards.

Low branch-mispredict technique for MPEG run length encoding

What is disclosed is a method for interfacing applications to network driver interface device drivers. The method includes the steps of binding a virtual device driver to a network driver interface; filling in a network driver interface request structure; and, passing the network driver interface request structure to the network driver interface. An apparatus for interfacing applications to network driver interface device drivers is also disclosed.

System and method for binding a virtual device driver to a network

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for monitoring application program execution time in a computer system having an operating system which controls execution of one or more application programs, with each application program including an executable task and one or more executable subtasks. The method includes detecting initiation of a first-executed task associated with an application program, determining a current system time corresponding to that initiation, and setting a starting time for the application program to the current system time. The method also includes detecting termination of a last-executed task or subtask associated with the application program, determining a current system time corresponding to that termination, and setting a final ending time for the application to the current system time.

Method and apparatus for tracking program execution time in a computer

A method and apparatus for processing signals for display using a single frame buffer. In a preferred embodiment, a plurality of pixels are received, wherein one or more of the plurality of pixels corresponds to a first display and one or more of the plurality of pixels corresponds to a second display. A display bit map and a display mask are generated in accordance with the plurality of pixels. If a pixel of the plurality of pixels corresponds to the first display and a corresponding mask field of the display mask has a first-display value, then the pixel is stored in the display bit map, wherein the mask field comprises at least one mask bit. Otherwise, if the pixel corresponds to a key color, then the mask field corresponding to the pixel is set to the first-display value. Otherwise, the pixel is stored in the display bit map and the mask field corresponding to the pixel is set to a second-display value.

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Chandler, AZ, United States of America

Thomas R Craver