Patents by Inventor Orden E. Smith

Orden E. Smith 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).

  • System and method for servicing interrupts
    Patent number: 6820154
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method of selectively awaking processes in response to an interrupt condition. A processing system may host a plurality of processes where each process is associated with an event causing an interrupt condition at a device. When a process transitions to a sleeping state, an identifier of the process may be associated with an address in a data structure. In response to an event at the device causing an interrupt condition, an interrupt service routine may associate data received from the device with the identifier in the data structure to locate the sleeping process. The located process may then be awakened while maintaining other sleeping processes associated with other events in a sleeping state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Orden E. Smith
  • System and method for servicing interrupts
    Publication number: 20030046465
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method of selectively awaking processes in response to an interrupt condition. A processing system may host a plurality of processes where each process is associated with an event causing an interrupt condition at a device. When a process transitions to a sleeping state, an identifier of the process may be associated with an address in a data structure. In response to an event at the device causing an interrupt condition, an interrupt service routine may associate data received from the device with the identifier in the data structure to locate the sleeping process. The located process may then be awakened while maintaining other sleeping processes associated with other events in a sleeping state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventor: Orden E. Smith