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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2007
Applicant:
Venkataraman Kamalaksha, Bangalore, IN;
Inventor:
Venkataraman Kamalaksha, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for distributing low-priority maintenance tasks in a computer system employing a plurality of central processing units. In an illustrative embodiment, an activity flag is assigned to each of the plurality of central processing units. After a network packet is received, it is processed in one of the plurality of central processing units and the maintenance tasks are assigned to a central processing unit based on the status of its activity flag.