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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2003
Applicants:

Vasudevan Srinivasan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Avinash P. Chakravarthy, Beaverton, OR (US);

Inventors:

Vasudevan Srinivasan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Avinash P. Chakravarthy, Beaverton, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for determining processor utilization have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes determining processor utilization in a data processing system and synchronizing execution of a number of threads in the data processing system to prevent interrupting the determining of the processor utilization. Other embodiments have been claimed and described.


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