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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:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Siamak Tavallaei, Spring, TX (US);
Gary B Kotzur, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 48 ; 710260 ; 710261 ; 710266 ; 710268 ;
Abstract
Apparatus, and an associated method, for requesting initiation of generation of an interrupt at an I/O APIC (input/output advanced programmable interrupt controller) of a multi-processor computer system. Initiation of generation of the inter-processor interrupt is requested by a peripheral component device, such as a PCI bus controller, not directly connected to an APIC bus extending to interrupt controllers associated with each of the processors of the multi-processor computer system. The interrupt permitted to be initiated by the peripheral component device includes, inter alia, a remote read request.