Patents by Inventor Richard Hankins

Richard Hankins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Mechanism to schedule threads on OS-sequestered sequencers without operating system intervention
    Publication number: 20060150184
    Abstract: Method, apparatus and system embodiments to schedule OS-independent “shreds” without intervention of an operating system. For at least one embodiment, the shred is scheduled for execution by a scheduler routine rather than the operating system. A scheduler routine may run on each enabled sequencer. The schedulers may retrieve shred descriptors from a queue system. The sequencer associated with the scheduler may then execute the shred described by the descriptor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Richard Hankins, Hong Wang, Gautham Chinya, Trung Diep, Shivnandan Kaushik, Bryant Bigbee, John Shen, Asit Mallick, Baiju Patel, James Held, Milind Girkar, Prashant Sethi, Xinmin Tian