MANAGING INTERPRETER COFUNCTIONS ON MULTIPROCESSOR-BASED PRINTER

Patent №

US 6,069,705

Granted

2000-05-30

Filed 1997

Owner

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08900896

A multiprocessor unit (11) for a printer system. The multiprocessor unit (11) is comprised of a master processor (21) and multiple parallel processors (22). The processing unit (11) interprets a page description program or some other graphics programming. A master processor (21) selects certain interpretation tasks that are to be executed as "cofunctions" and queues these tasks. Cofunctions of the same type are placed in the same queue (30). Parallel processors (22) access the queues and execute the cofunctions.

AI classification

AI hardware0.95
Natural language0.69
Planning0.58
Knowledge representation0.01
Machine learning0.01
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

assignment · 91830074

Assignors

SUVARNA, HARISH KUMAR

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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