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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:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wilhelmus J. M. Diepstraten, Haghorst, NL;
Michael A. Fischer, San Antonio, TX (US);
Wesley D. Hardell, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Agere Systems Guardian Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ; G06F 9/00 ; G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A context controller for managing multitasking in a processor and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the context controller includes: (1) memory that contains contexts corresponding to background tasks to be executed in the processor, the contexts having status indicators associated therewith and (2) a background task controller that reads the status indicators associated with the contexts and cyclicly activates the contexts based on the status indicators.