US 6,816,809 C1 (13,204th)
Hardware based utilization metering
Edgar Circenis, Loveland, CO (US)
Filed by Edgar Circenis, Loveland, CO (US)
Assigned to Valtrus Innovations Limited
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,426, Feb. 21, 2024.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 6,816,809, issued Nov. 9, 2004, Appl. No. 10/200,175, Jul. 23, 2002.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Mar. 18, 2026.
Int. Cl. G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 1/00 (2006.01); H03K 21/40 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 11/3423 (2013.01)
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 13-17 is confirmed.
Claims 1, 6-10 and 12 are cancelled.
Claims 2-5 and 11, dependent on an amended claim, are determined to be patentable.
Claims 18-20 were not reexamined.
13. A hardware based method for measuring processor utilization in a computer system comprising a plurality of processors, the method comprising:
determining when any of the plurality of processors is busy;
providing a busy indication to a counter associated with a busy processor;
receiving at the counter a measure of computer system time;
incrementing a counter value in the counter based on the provided busy indication and an amount of computer system time that the processor is determined to be busy; and
maintaining the counter value.