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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. 01, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven P Burns, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709107 ;
Abstract
A background processor for executing one or more background processes in a single thread. The background processor eliminates system overhead associated with setting up and executing multiple threads. An easy to use object-oriented interface is provided which allows external threads to request the registering and unregistering of background processes as desired.