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Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2014
Applicants:

Thomas William Barr, Houston, TX (US);

Scott Rixner, Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

Thomas William Barr, Houston, TX (US);

Scott Rixner, Spring, TX (US);

Assignee:

William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0691 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for communicating data between peripheral devices and an embedded processor that includes receiving, at a data buffer unit of the embedded processor, the data from a peripheral device. The method also includes copying data from the data buffer unit into the bridge buffer of the embedded processor as a bridge buffer message. Additionally, the method includes creating, after storing the data as a bridge buffer message, a peripheral device message comprising the bridge buffer message, and sending the peripheral device message to a thread message queue of a subscriber.


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