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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:
Aug. 23, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventor:

Barry Clayton Bond, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/4812 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples of the disclosure enable callback operations, such as interrupts, Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APCs), and Deferred Procedure Calls (DPCs), to be efficiently managed. In some examples, an emulated thread includes a request for a callback operation. When the request is detected, the emulated thread and/or a cooperating thread associated with the callback operation is executed based on an execution mode associated with the callback operation. Examples of the disclosure manage callback operations while efficiently managing system resources, including processor load, by providing at least one cooperating thread that consumes little or no processing power until the callback operation is ready to be executed.


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