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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:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven M Miller, Batavia, IL (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 40 ; 710-2 ; 710-6 ; 710 36 ; 710 39 ;
Abstract
A system for prioritizing Input/Output tasks in a computer. The tasks are assigned ranks. When a task is running on the computer, incoming tasks are placed into a queue, in rank order. If the highest-ranking task within the queue outranks the running task, the running task is suspended, and that highest-ranking task is run instead. When that task finishes running, the next-ranking task is run, and so on.