Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Konaka

Yoshiharu Konaka 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).

  • Program control apparatus and method and apparatus for memory allocation ensuring execution of a process exclusively and ensuring real time operation, without locking computer system
    Patent number: 6910213
    Abstract: A program control apparatus ensuring real time response by ensuring execution of a process exclusively without locking the system includes a unit responsive to an application program interface call from a thread which interface requesting start of detection of presence/absence of a context switching, for setting a flag indicating presence/absence of a context switching to a state corresponding to absence of a context switching, a unit for setting, after said flag is set to the state corresponding to absence of a context switching and a scheduler switches context, the flag to a state corresponding to presence of a context switching, and a unit responsive to an application program interface call from the thread, which interface requesting termination of detection of presence/absence of a context switching, returning a value corresponding to the state of the flag to the thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Hirono, Kazushi Inui, Yoshiharu Konaka, Hiroshi Kuribayashi