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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:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
James A. Sievert, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Mark K. Vallevand, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Assignee:
Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reusing a thread for different programmed operations are provided in various embodiments. In one embodiment, different application operations are defined as subclasses of a thread operation class, and a thread is implemented with a thread class. In one embodiment, the application operations can be queued to the thread for scheduled execution using the thread. In another embodiment, a first application operation can start a thread and be executed therewith, while a second application operation can attach to the thread for execution.