Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University Assigned Patent

Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon-si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (11640321) developed by Jeon, Jaewook, Moon, Junyoung, Kim, Doyeon, Jo, Minhee, and Park, Jaewan, Suwon-si, Korea, for “method and apparatus for memory allocation in a multi-core processor system, and recording medium therefor.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”According to the disclosure, a memory allocation method and device and recording medium in a multi-core processor system are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for allocating a shared variable to a memory in a multi-core processor system comprises mapping each task to a core, allocating unshared variables to memories times of access, to which are sequentially minimized, in descending order of actual variable access count, calculating an actual variable access count per core, selecting a core with a highest actual variable access count, and allocating a shared variable to a memory of the selected core.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-08-19 (16/997160).