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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002

Filed:

Sep. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Michael D. O'Donnell, Austin, TX (US);

Danny B. Gross, Austin, TX (US);

Gene R. Toomey, Kyle, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract

Minimization of waste of information processing resources by orphan computer processes in an information processing system is provided by: assembling information regarding active computer processes on a computer system; classifying each of the active computer processes for which information was assembled as one of a group consisting of legitimate computer processes and orphan computer processes; and processing the orphan computer processes according to an orphan processing protocol.


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