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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:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael C. Woodring, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Aaron M. Cohen, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rama Menon, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/200 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and system for streaming an information stream from a producer to N consumers in a multi-process environment. An inter-process communication (IPC) channel containing a shared memory is provided between the producer and at least one of N consumers. The information stream is written into the shared memory by way of a producer-side interface. The information stream is read from the shared memory by way of a consumer-side interface.