The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Fall City, WA (US);

Cristian Diaconu, Kirkland, WA (US);

Michael James Zwilling, Bellevue, WA (US);

Per-Ake Larson, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4843 (2013.01);
Abstract

The efficient use of threads that issue calls to log events. While waiting for the call to return or complete, the threads are put to work on other tasks that are not part of the process that generated the event. This can occur without context switching of the thread, especially when the task to be performed is state-less or context free. In the efficient thread diversion process, the thread calls a logging component to log an event. This blocks the thread from continuing work on a process that the event is part of until the event is logged. The thread then performs a diversion task that is not part of the processing unit that the event is part of. After detecting that the event has logged, the thread continues work on the processing unit that the event is part of.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…