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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:
Jun. 21, 2016

Filed:

May. 08, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bishop Brock, Coupland, TX (US);

Tilman Gloekler, Gaertringen, DE;

Andreas Koenig, Boeblingen, DE;

Cedric Lichtenau, Stuttgart, DE;

Preetham M Lobo, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2013.01); G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/5038 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments include an apparatus comprising a processor and a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code. The computer usable program code can be configured to determine whether priority of a requested task is higher than a priority of a currently executing task. The computer usable program code can be further configured to determine whether a value indicates that the currently executing task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be configured to trigger execution of the requested task on the processor, if the value indicates that the currently executed task can be interrupted. The computer usable program code can be further configured to wait for lapse of a time period and, interrupt the currently executing task upon detection of lapse of the time period or detection of a change to the value, if the value indicates that the currently executing task cannot be interrupted.


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