US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Efficient timer mechanism for multi-threaded systems" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,584, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Efficient timer mechanism for multi-threaded systems" was invented by Vitaly Alexandrovsky (Nesher, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises a processing device configured to implement a timer for controlling requests for delayed execution of functions in accordance with respective delay times, with the timer comprising a cyclic array of request queues, each configured to hold one or more of the requests, and a polling thread for polling the request queues to identify, for each of a plurality of polling int...