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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:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2001
Applicants:
Maarten Koning, Bloomfield, CA;
Andrew Gaiarsa, Carp, CA;
Inventors:
Maarten Koning, Bloomfield, CA;
Andrew Gaiarsa, Carp, CA;
Assignee:
Wind River Systems, Inc., Alameda, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F013/38 ; G06F009/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for controlling priority inheritance in a computer system is described, the method including testing a priority inheritance variable associated with a task, and lowering the current priority of a task when testing the priority inheritance variable indicates that the task holds no resources that are involved in a priority inheritance.