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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Scott J. Norton, San Jose, CA (US);

Hyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Scott J. Norton, San Jose, CA (US);

Hyun Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/45504 (2013.01); G06F 9/5027 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5018 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5021 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method to abstract a multithreaded processor core to single threaded processor core include performing the steps of: viewing, by an operating system, a first hardware thread and a second hardware thread in a processor core; and viewing, by a user application, the first hardware thread and the second hardware thread as a single CPU object.


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