System and method for interrupt handling
US7149832B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 10, 2004 |
| Grant date | Dec 12, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 21, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/4812
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system, methodology and/or computer architecture that facilitates processing device interrupts (including level-triggered interrupts) in a user-mode process is provided. The kernel interrupt handler can cause a dedicated thread in the process to wake and invoke the driver interrupt service routine. This thread can then return control to the kernel interrupt handler. In addition to processing interrupts in an isolated mode, the context switching technique could be used in any isolated environment to process interrupts via dedicated execution context methods.
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