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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2004
Applicants:
Michael Norman Day, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark Richard Nutter, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel Lawrence Stasiak, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Michael Norman Day, Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark Richard Nutter, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel Lawrence Stasiak, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 1/26 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides for notifying threads. A determination is made whether there is a condition for which a thread is to be notified. If so, a notification indicia is broadcasted. A flag is set in at least one memory storage area as a function of the notification indicia wherein the setting the flag occurs without the intervention of an operating system. Therefore, latencies for notification of threads are minimized.