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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:
Aug. 24, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2006
Applicant:

J. Michael Stall, Bothell, WA (US);

Inventor:

J. Michael Stall, Bothell, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment of this invention, a computer system performs a method for stateless asynchronous message transmission. The method involves a first software application instantiating a listener communication thread for communication with a process of a second software application. The method involves receiving an event notification from a sender communication thread, then suspending the sender communication thread in the second process while the second process continues running. The method involves storing a thread identifier of the suspended sender communication thread and the memory address of an event message within the event notification. The method involves writing information to the suspended sender communication thread during the suspension of the sender communication thread to change values that are provided to the second software application. Lastly, the method involves resuming the sender communication thread subsequent to writing the information, thereby instructing the second process of the second application to process the written information.


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