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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:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
May. 17, 1996
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Korea Telecommunication Authority, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a latch structure for effectively controlling the users' simultaneous accesses to a critical section in a system supporting a multi-user environment and a method for managing the same. The latch is a data structure, having a mutual exclusion variable and a pointer to a request queue, used in providing a schedule for user requests. It is an object of the present invention to provide a latch structure and a method for managing the same which are simple and are capable of improving the concurrence of the users' accesses to a critical section through the implementation of a complete latch satisfying all of the conditions required by the critical section. The concurrence for the multi-user system and the performance of the entire system can be greatly improved.
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