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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Geoffrey R Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hans-martin Krober, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. Dodd, Mountain View, CA (US);
Geoffrey R Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hans-Martin Krober, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael D. Dodd, Mountain View, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Tiered command distribution is described. In an embodiment, a pipeline architecture includes processor chains of data processors that process control events received from an application interface control. A tier assignment algorithm determines the longest path of data processors through the processor chains to determine a tier allocation for each data processor in the set of processor chains. Each tier includes a data processor from one or more of the processor chains where a first set of data processors in a first tier each receive a control event and process the control event and/or process the data according to the control event before a second set of data processors in a second tier each receive the control event.