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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:
Jun. 06, 2000

Filed:

Jul. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert Marshall Nally, Plano, TX (US);

John Charles Schafer, Wylie, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709102 ; 709103 ; 710-6 ; 710 24 ; 345 56 ; 348441 ; 348668 ; 348676 ; 348721 ; 711118 ; 711151 ; 711155 ; 712-3 ; 712-4 ; 712-8 ; 712-9 ;
Abstract

A system and method for time slicing multiple received data streams utilizing multiple processors in such a manner as to ensure that all processors are running at full capability and are efficiently timesharing a global memory storage area. The received data streams are each divided into fixed portions called spans. The invention is operable for sequencing the movement of the time-sliced spans between the processors, adjusting the scheduling of particular ones of the time-sliced spans as a function of either processor availability or maintenance of real-time transmission of the received real-time time-sliced data streams.


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