Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adeos nanokernel for Linux kernel | Date | Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:05:21 +0200 |
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On Monday 03 June 2002 12:12, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > The 2 root claims in this patent are claim 1 & 7. Both of these > contain the following statements [1]: > > A process for running a general purpose computer operating system > > using a real time operating system, including the steps of: > > > > a) providing a real time operating system for running real time > > tasks and components and non-real time tasks; > > > > b) providing a general purpose operating system as one of the > > non-real time tasks; > > > > c) preempting the general purpose operating system as needed for > > the real time tasks; and > > > > d) preventing the general purpose operating system from blocking > > preemption of the non-real time tasks.
For anyone who's interested, here's a pointer to *all* the claims of the rtlinux patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%275,995,745%27.WKU.&OS=PN/5,995,745&RS=PN/5,995,745
And here's a pointer to a nice tutorial on how to read patent claims:
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9511.html
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