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(21) Application No. 1404/DEL/2003 A (22) Date of filing of Application: 13/11/2003
(54) Title of the invention: “AN IMPROVED PROCESSOR HAVING INTERRUPT INTERFACE
CONTROL LOGIC.”
(51) International Classification 7 : G 06F 13/24
(30) Priority Data : 10/318,248
(31) Document No.:
(32) Date : 11/12/2002
(33) Name of convention country : U.S.A.
(66) Filed U/s 5(2) : NIL
(61) Patent of addition to application No. : NA
(62) Filed on : NA
(63) Divisional to Application No. :NIL
(64) Filed on : NA
(57) Abstract:
(71) Name of the applicant:
INTEL CORPORATION.
Address of the Applicant:
Of 2200 Mission College Boulevard,
Santa Clara, California 95052, United
States of America.
(72) Name of the Inventor:
STEVEN M. BENNET
MICHEAL KOZUCH
GILBERT NEIGER
ERIC COTA-ROBLES
STALINSELVARAJ JEYASINGH
ALAIN KAGI
RICHARD UHLIG
An improved processor, characterized in that, it has interrupt controller interface logic to:
recognize a pending interrupt during the operation of guest software; determine whether the
interrupt is managed by the guest software; determine whether a virtual machine monitor is ready
to receive control; and
transition control to the virtual machine monitor.
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