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Data processing system for an industrial robot and method for managing available resources thereof

  • US 8,793,018 B2
  • Filed: 10/29/2008
  • Issued: 07/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method to operate a computer system, comprising:

  • in a computer system having a plurality of respective interfaces, assigning each respective interface a priority level, from among a plurality of priority levels ranked from a lowest priority level to a highest priority level in a hierarchy of time-criticality for performing respective tasks among a plurality of tasks performable by said computer system, with the lowest priority level in said hierarchy designating a task, among said plurality of tasks, with a lowest time-criticality for performance thereof and the highest priority level designating a task, among said plurality of tasks, with a highest time-criticality for performance thereof;

    via the respective interfaces, individually receiving incoming data packets that originate externally of said computer system, and automatically assigning each incoming data packet a priority level equal to the priority level of the respective interface at which that incoming data packet was received;

    in said computer system, giving each incoming data packet a destination address that causes that data packet to be transferred to a destination in said computer system designated by the destination address; and

    processing the respective data packets at said respective destinations in said computer system in a chronological order that is dependent on the respective destination to which the respective data packets have been transferred.

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