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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. 06, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brett Louis Lindsley, Wheaton, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method, an article of manufacture and a multi-tasking, preemptive, priority based operating device for acceleration of operating system functions using a host processor and a task scheduling accelerator. The host processor processes a plurality of tasks and receives interrupts and uses a predetermined task scheduling accelerator interrupt service routine for responding to the task scheduling accelerator. The task scheduling accelerator is coupled to the host processor and is used for efficiently accelerating real time multi-tasking decisions using scheduling decisions responsive to tasks in the host processor.