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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. 13, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2008
Applicants:

Bernard Pierce, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Daniel V. Rosa, Highland, NY (US);

Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bernard Pierce, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Daniel V. Rosa, Highland, NY (US);

Donald W. Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus of operating a central processing unit (CPU) including a plurality of processors, is provided and includes collecting real-time statistics relating to the processors during dispatching activities, identifying give-help processors from the real-time statistics when the real-time statistics indicate that one or more of the nodes is overworked, and implementing help to be provided by the give-help processor to relieve the overworked node of a portion of the work to be distributed thereto.


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