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Article: Massachusetts Inventor Develops Critical Code Section Execution Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 17, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- David Dice of Foxborough, Mass., has developed methods and an apparatus for executing code while avoiding interference.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms and techniques operate in a scalable or non-scalable processing architecture computerized device to execute critical code while overcoming interference from interruptions. A critical signal handler is registered and a non-operating system thread sets a value of a critical code register to indicate a critical execution condition. The non-operating system thread then executes a critical code section until an interruption occurs."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent ...