Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Bronte

Jeffrey S. Bronte 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).

  • Integrated hardware and software task control executive
    Patent number: 6061709
    Abstract: A method and system for permitting a software-based executive to execute concurrently with a hardware-based executive. The software-based executive allocates hardware executive tasks, hardware executive interrupts, software executive tasks, and software executive interrupts to defined execution spaces available on a microprocessor having a hardware-based executive. Applications control hardware-based executive tasks and interrupts through a hardware executive application programming interface (API), and software-based executive tasks through a software executive API. Applications share the hardware executive API functions for interrupt installation and management. The invention allocates all hardware executive interrupts to a high priority interrupt execution space, and all hardware executive tasks to a high priority queue. All software executive interrupts are allocated to low priority interrupts, and all software executive tasks are allocated to a low priority queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Integrated Systems Design Center, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Bronte