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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:
Oct. 06, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Peter Douglas Bain, Ottawa, CA;

Graham A. Chapman, Nepean, CA;

Dan Heidinga, Ottawa, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 8/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3624 (2013.01); G06F 8/311 (2013.01); G06F 11/3688 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention provide devices that count for an application thread levels of critical sections of program code, and in response to a program exception in the application thread that is deferrable and a non-zero count of the levels of critical sections, execute a remainder of program code within the critical sections of program code.


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