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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
Brett Green, Meridian, ID (US);
Curtis Reese, Boise, ID (US);
Brett Green, Meridian, ID (US);
Curtis Reese, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A process task management system is provided to be used within an operating system environment. The system comprises an executing processes module containing a list of processes currently executing in the operating system environment. A status attribute is included for each process in the list, which represents an execution state of the process and is viewable by a user. A process state checking module is configured to check the execution state of each process when the process is busy, and to set the status attribute for each process to inform the user whether the execution state of the process is busy and performing processing activity.