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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:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2002
Applicants:
Larry D. Barto, Austin, TX (US);
Steven C. Nettles, Johnson City, TX (US);
Yiwei LI, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Larry D. Barto, Austin, TX (US);
Steven C. Nettles, Johnson City, TX (US);
Yiwei Li, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are provided for calculating a plurality of bottleneck delta virtual work in process time ('VWIP') values. Each of the bottleneck delta VWIP values represents the time until one of n bottleneck workstations begins to risk starvation.