Patents by Inventor Rabindra P. Kar

Rabindra P. Kar 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).

  • Patent number: 6012082
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for CPU cycle stealing on a non-preemptive multi-tasking operating system allowing a first application to preempt other applications which are running concurrently on the operating system. The steps taken to perform the CPU cycle stealing include: inserting a hook near a starting address of message monitoring calls, and vectoring the execution path to the first application whenever one of the other applications calls the message monitoring calls, allowing the first application to steal CPU cycles from one of the other applications. The vectoring is provided by the hook inserted near the starting address of the message monitoring calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Rabindra P. Kar
  • Patent number: 5761439
    Abstract: In a computer network including a first computer communicatively coupled with at least a second computer through data and control channels, wherein each of the first and second computers are provided with an application program, a communication program and a synchronization program. In each of the first and second computers, the communication program is provided between the application program and the data and control channels, while the synchronization program is provided between the application program and the communication program. The synchronization program including means for sequentially forwarding commands and data units received from the application program of the same computer to the communication program of the same computer for transmission to another computer as corresponding control and data signals on the control and data channels, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rabindra P. Kar, Kenneth W. Reese