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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. 22, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Timothy G Lindholm, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711122 ; 711121 ; 711147 ; 707103 ; 709104 ; 709107 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for synchronizing objects with threads is described. To find a specific synchronization construct that is to be used to synchronize a thread with an object, a local table is first searched for data that refers to the specific synchronization. If the local table does not contain data referring to the specific synchronization construct, then a global table is used to search for the synchronization construct to be used to synchronize the object with the thread.