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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2010
Stephen Jisoo Rhee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Elaine Yee Ting Sin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gerardo Pardo-castellote, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut, Berlin, DE;
Rajive Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Jisoo Rhee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Elaine Yee Ting Sin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut, Berlin, DE;
Rajive Joshi, San Jose, CA (US);
Real-Time Innovations, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for execution of multiple threads in a multithreaded computing programming environment are disclosed. The techniques are especially well suited for environments that use multilayered programming architecture where a higher layer can build on the functions provided by a lower layer where the delay time is an important consideration. In one aspect, the conceptual notion of a 'Worker' effectively serves to represent the thread-specific execution context for a thread of execution ('thread') in a multithreaded computing environment. Another aspect, provides the notion of an Exclusion Area (EA) as logical lock that serves to protect shared resources in a multithreaded environment. The combination of the worker and EA are used to provide a powerful framework that, among other things, allows minimizing of the delay time.