Methods and apparatus for managing a buffer of events in the background

• US 7,661,112 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2006
• Issued: 02/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ARM Finance Overseas Limited (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MIPS Technologies Incorporated (Wave Computing, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nemirovsky, Mario, Nemirovsky, Adolfo, Musoll, Enric, Sankar, Narendra
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US11/278,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20060225080A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• Field of Search: 709238-242, 709/203, 709/250, 719/318, 719313-314
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/126 and has means for transferring I/O instructions and statuses between control unit and main processor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/546 Xcast
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications

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