Patents Assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Labroatory, Inc.
  • Interprocessor communication for a fault-tolerant, mixed redundancy distributed information processing system
    Patent number: 5210871
    Abstract: A method for resolving access contentions by a plurality of processing sites having the same or different redundancies to a shared communications system wherein the start of the access contention process is first synchronized for all contending sites. A determination is then made of which sites are performing tasks of the highest criticality level and a subsequent determination is made as to which of such highest criticality sites has the highest priority level. Access is then provided to the site having the highest priority level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Labroatory, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaynarayan H. Lala, Stuart J. Adams