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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. 26, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
David J. O'Shea, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Bruce C. Edmonds, Jr., Colombia, SC (US);
Craig W. Keating, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Larry D. Aaron, Jr., Irmo, SC (US);
Frank E. LeClerg, Hillsborough, OR (US);
Frank Binns, Hillsborough, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5177 ;
Abstract
A method of electing a bootstrap processor from among a plurality of processor includes creating an atomic access shared location and electing one of said processors as the bootstrap processor.