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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:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2002
Applicants:
Jeffrey A. Frey, New Paltz, NY (US);
Stephen J. Kinder, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Matthew J. Sykes, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Frey, New Paltz, NY (US);
Stephen J. Kinder, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Matthew J. Sykes, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Resources used by components are aggressively reclaimed, in order to enable those resources to be available to other components. To aggressively reclaim one or more resources of a component, the component is forced to transition from one state to a reclaim state, and at the reclaim state, the resources are reclaimed, if necessary.