Patents by Inventor Michael Mutter

Michael Mutter 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).

  • Method and apparatus for scheduling tasks to a cyclic schedule
    Patent number: 10853133
    Abstract: A method for scheduling tasks to a cyclic schedule, comprising maintaining a request queue, a count, the count being initialized to a given limit, and an index of a current time slot within the schedule. Periodically, if the request queue contains a reference to an urgent task among the tasks, that reference is removed from the request queue and the urgent task is dispatched and if the request queue is empty, the index is advanced to the next time slot within the schedule. If the next time slot is statically assigned to a task among the tasks, that task is dispatched, and if the next time slot is unassigned and the count is below the limit, the count is incremented and the index is further advanced to the next but one time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Nigel Tracey, Alexander Vensmer, Gary Morgan, Michael Mutter, Paul Austin, Thomas Wendel
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCHEDULING TASKS TO A CYCLIC SCHEDULE
    Publication number: 20180321973
    Abstract: A method for scheduling tasks to a cyclic schedule, comprising maintaining a request queue, a count, the count being initialized to a given limit, and an index of a current time slot within the schedule. Periodically, if the request queue contains a reference to an urgent task among the tasks, that reference is removed from the request queue and the urgent task is dispatched and if the request queue is empty, the index is advanced to the next time slot within the schedule. If the next time slot is statically assigned to a task among the tasks, that task is dispatched, and if the next time slot is unassigned and the count is below the limit, the count is incremented and the index is further advanced to the next but one time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Nigel Tracey, Alexander Vensmer, Gary Morgan, Michael Mutter, Paul Austin, Thomas Wendel