Appeal No. 2001-1578
Application No. 08/771,550
Independent claim 1 present in the application is reproduced
as follows:
1. A computer system, comprising:
a processor;
a memory;
an operating system for supporting concurrent execution of a
plurality of tasks on said computer system, said operating system
comprising a plurality of instructions executable on said
processor, said plurality of instructions maintaining a plurality
of data structures supporting operating system functions
performed by said plurality of instructions executing on said
processor;
wherein said operating system allocates a plurality of
overlapping task virtual address spaces, each task virtual
address space being allocated to a respective task;
wherein said operating system allocates, within a plurality
of said task virtual address spaces, a shared address space
region, said shared address space region occupying the same
virtual address range within each respective task virtual address
space, said shared address space region being less than the
entire task virtual address space; and
wherein said operating system allocates, within said virtual
address range occupied by said shared address space region, a
plurality address ranges assigned to respective addressable
entities, each respective one of said range of addresses being
uniquely and persistently assigned to its respective addressable
entity, and wherein the virtual address range of an addressable
entity shared by two or more tasks resides at the same address
within each task's shared address space region.
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