Patent ID: 11972293
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A device for a jointly utilized memory for inter-process communication in an application system including a plurality of user processes, the memory including a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of one or more of the plurality of user processes is grantable access to more than one of the memory cells, the device comprising:
a storage; and
a processor, wherein for each of the one or more of the plurality of user processes, the processor is configured to:
maintain in the storage a respective management structure that includes a respective pointer object for each of the memory cells whose access is currently granted to the respective user process, the granting of the access preventing access of the respective memory cells by others of the user processes; and
in response to a release of the grant of the access of any of the memory cells by the respective user process, remove from the respective management structure of the respective user process the respective pointer object of the released memory cell.