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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Denis Gulsen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Chromatic Research, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395678 ; 395569 ; 364230 ; 3642301 ; 3642302 ;
Abstract
A system and method for fast context switching between tasks by tracking task utilization of shared system resources and optimizing swapping the shared system resources to backing store by computing the difference between the current task's utilization of the system resources and the incoming task's utilization of the shared system resources and only swapping to backing store the difference between the current task's utilization, the available system resources, and the incoming task's needs.