Intel Assigned Patent
Driver scheduling I/O servicing according to priority of identified process
By Jean Jacques Maleval | October 24, 2014 at 2:47 pmIntel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,850,439) developed by Brian Dees, Hillsboro, OR, and Knut Grimsrud, Forest Grove, OR, for a “storage subsystem device driver scheduling I/O servicing according to priority of identified process.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify and prioritize application processes in one or more subsystems. Some embodiments identifying applications and processes associated with each application executing on a system, apply one or more priority rules to the identified applications and processes to generate priority information, and transmit the priority information to a subsystem. The subsystem then matches received requests with the priority information and services the processes according to the priority information.“
The patent application was filed on Aug. 6, 2010 (12/852,171).
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