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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. 10, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2004
Applicant:
Paul VU, Tomball, TX (US);
Inventor:
Paul Vu, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for detecting and controlling interrupt storms in a computer system. More specifically, there is provided a method that comprises detecting whether or not a device is producing an interrupt storm, and if the device is producing an interrupt storm, disabling the interrupt being generated by the device, and a system for implementing the method.