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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2008
Kenneth Christian Dyke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeremy Todd Sandmel, San Mateo, CA (US);
Geoff Stahl, San Jose, CA (US);
John Kenneth Stauffer, Gilroy, CA (US);
Kenneth Christian Dyke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jeremy Todd Sandmel, San Mateo, CA (US);
Geoff Stahl, San Jose, CA (US);
John Kenneth Stauffer, Gilroy, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Accessing a shared buffer can include receiving an identifier associated with a buffer from a sending process, requesting one or more attributes corresponding to the buffer based on the received identifier, mapping at least a first page of the buffer in accordance with the one or more requested attributes, and accessing an item of data stored in the buffer by the sending process. The identifier also can comprise a unique identifier. Further, the identifier can be passed to one or more other processes. Additionally, the one or more requested attributes can include at least one of a pointer to a memory location and a property describing the buffer.