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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1999
Alessandro Forin, Redmond, WA (US);
Johannes V. Helander, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed toward a loadable interprocess communication manager and generally to a computer operating system capable of supporting plural threads running in a computer having a working memory, the computer operating system including a kernel resident in the working memory at link time and a loadable interprocess communication manager resident at link time outside of the working memory and dynamically loadable into the working memory at run time upon request by one of the threads in one address space to communicate with an other thread in an other address space. The kernel includes a loader for loading the interprocess communication manager into the working memory in response to the request by the one thread. The computer further includes a storage memory separate from the working memory, the loadable interprocess communication manager residing at link time in the storage memory. The loader loads the interprocess communication manager from the storage memory to the working memory. The loadable interprocess communication manager is terminable from the working memory upon lack of a need for communication between threads in different address spaces.