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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:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Lorenzo Di Gregorio, Pescara, IT;
Inventor:
Lorenzo Di Gregorio, Pescara, IT;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a device to be used with a scheduling method, and to a scheduling method, in particular a context scheduling method, comprising the steps of performing a scheduling for threads to be executed by a multithreaded processor, wherein the scheduling is performed as a function of index variables assigned to the threads. That thread whose index variable has the highest, or—in an alternative—the lowest value may be selected as the respective thread to be executed by the processor.