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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:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2005
Applicant:
Larry Bert Brenner, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Larry Bert Brenner, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and system for detecting and reporting an excessive period of interrupt disablement in operating system programming in a data processing system. A method for detecting and reporting an excessive period of disablement in operating system programming in a data processing system includes determining, at a plurality of scheduled times, if an operating system task is running disabled for interrupts, and reporting an excessive disablement if the operating system task runs disabled for interrupts for a predefined number of consecutive scheduled times.