Patent ID: 9471372
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of scheduling communication schedulable units, CSUs, belonging to different owners in a radio communication device using multiple processors, wherein the CSUs can be processed in parallel by at least two of the processors, comprising: maintaining a global CSU list and an owner waiting list, wherein the global CSU list includes CSUs waiting to be processed and in the global CSU list, the CSUs waiting to be processed are ordered according to time stamps of the CSUs waiting to be processed, wherein the owner waiting list includes owners that have no CSU being processed by the processors and in the owner waiting list the owners that have no CSU being processed are ordered according to time stamps of their respective earliest CSUs waiting to be processed in the global CSU list; and when one of the processors finishes processing a first CSU of a first owner, scheduling a CSU to be processed next by the processor according to the order of the CSUs by the time stamps and CSU affinity, based on the global CSU list and the owner waiting list, wherein the scheduling comprises: