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Method and apparatus for altering thread priorities in a multithreaded processor

EP 1027650 B1 · Applicant: Google Inc.

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  • Filed October 14, 1998 and granted June 20, 2012. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 14, 2018.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by April 14, 2024.
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FiledOctober 14, 1998
PublishedAugust 16, 2000
GrantedJune 20, 2012
Term endedOctober 14, 2018
Application numberEP 98952308
Classification (CPC)G06F9/3009 +2 more

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