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Patent No.:

US 8321656 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2009
Applicant:

Stephen E. Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventor:

Stephen E. Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for providing timer use and timer based execution parallelism during the DXE phase of computer start-up. Provision is made for loading a microkernel (or other kernel program) which presents itself as though it were a DXE Driver and changes a single threaded environment into a multithreaded environment.


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Jones, Stephen. (2012). Timer use in extensible firmware interface compliant systems (U.S. Patent No. 8321656). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8321656

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