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:
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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