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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. 06, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2002
Applicants:
Nicholas P. Wilt, Seattle, WA (US);
James Miller, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Nicholas P. Wilt, Seattle, WA (US);
James Miller, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Managed code, including applications, runtime, and driver, have a priori knowledge of the client's exact hardware configuration, just as the JIT compiler has a priori knowledge of the microprocessor type on the target computer system. At compile time, the compiler knows the effective version various system drivers, so that the compiler can emit an executable tuned for a particular driver version and target system.