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Patent No.:

US 7496921 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2003
Applicant:

Kalpesh D. Mehta, Chandler, AZ (US);

Inventor:

Kalpesh D. Mehta, Chandler, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/40 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A processing block is equipped with a storage to facilitate storage and maintenance of a thread switching structure to provide multi-threading support in a light-weight manner. In various embodiments, the structure includes a current thread identifier, and a thread array of thread entries describing the threads to be executed interleavingly. Further, in various embodiments, the processing block includes an execution sub-block and a thread management sub-block equipped to support at least a create thread, a thread execution termination, and a thread execution switching instruction.


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Mehta, Kalpesh. (2009). Processing block with integrated light weight multi-threading support (U.S. Patent No. 7496921). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7496921

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