The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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. 16, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
Applicants:
Paul Gootherts, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Douglas V. Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Gootherts, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Douglas V. Larson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 1/12 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for time measurement. One embodiment includes a method for measuring time on multiprocessor systems. The method includes allocating a memory space to a thread to be used to communicate with an operating system and saving a context switch count, an offset, and a scale factor, received from the operating system, in the memory space.