Patent ID: 6813265
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system for determining an order of service of temporarily stored objects, at least one priority flag being attached to certain objects, said system comprising:storage unit comprising a plurality of memory elements organized into a CÃ—P matrix into including C subsets of P memory elements, wherein C is a total number of objects stored temporarily, each of said subsets correspond to one of said objects, said P memory elements of each subset correspond to P time positions, and each of said memory elements can store at least one time priority flag, and time position selector means for determining, within the matrix, and from all said subsets, which of said memory elements currently store the time priority flag and correspond to the time position having lowest value, and means for writing the time priority flag for a given object into one of said memory elements corresponding to a time position allocated to that object.