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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:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1999
Robert Clinton Carden, IV, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Michael James Irving, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Abstract
A software buffer is implemented without using notoriously slow locking mechanisms by employing a so-called atomic microprocessor operation to increment a counter tracking the total number of messages inserted into the buffer by various processes. In this manner, a unique slot is guaranteed to be assigned to each respective message to be inserted. Additionally, a count of the total number of removed messages is used to handle situations where two messages are assigned the same slot due to buffer overflow.
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