US 8,799,706 B2 · Method and system of exchanging information between processors

Abstract

A method and system of exchanging information between processors. At least some of the illustrative embodiments may be a method comprising exchanging information between a plurality of processors by writing (by a first processor) a first datum to a logic device and then continuing processing of a user program by the first processor, writing (by a second processor) a second datum to the logic device and then continuing processing of a user program by the second processor, and writing (by the logic device) the first and second datum to each of the first and second processors after all the processors have written their respective datum to the logic device.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

exchanging information between a plurality of processors comprising
writing, by a first processor, a first datum to a logic device, and then continuing processing of a user program by the first processor;
writing, by a second processor, a second datum to the logic device, and then continuing processing of a user program by the second processor;
making a determination, by the logic device, that both the first and second processors have written their respective datum to the logic device;
and triggered by the determination
writing, by the logic device, the first and second datum to each of the first and second processors.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/042,985Filed 25 Jan 2005 · us provisional application

Priority

30 Mar 2004

Published

US 2005/0246578 A13 Nov 2005

Granted

5 Aug 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06F 11/1687
Temporal synchronisation or re-synchronisation of redundant processing components: at event level, e.g. by interrupt or result of polling
G06F 11/1645
Where the comparison is not performed by the redundant processing components: and the comparison itself uses redundant hardware
G06F
Computing and data processing

Method and system of exchanging information between processors

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Method and system of exchanging information between processors

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Abstract

Claims7