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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshio Kataoka, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
A state transition history for each state and an event establishment history for each event are gathered and recorded while a parsing and program invoking portion parses a state transition table. A state transition order optimizer determine the order of transitions to other states and an event order optimizer determine the order of event evaluation to minimize the state transition process time. Both optimization can be done according to the state transition history and event establishment history.