Patent ID: 7209993

Claim:
An interrupt control apparatus for controlling interrupts generated from interrupt resources, as a part of an operating system controlling a computer system, said interrupt control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit operable to receive a notification according to an execution of an application program, in which the notification includes interrupt resource information and address information which corresponds to the interrupt resource; a table unit operable to receive, from said receiving unit, and hold the address information which corresponds to interrupt resources of a first type being interrupt resources which are managed by the operating system, and operable to receive, from said receiving unit, and hold the address information which corresponds to interrupt resources of a second type being interrupts resources which are not managed by the operating system; and a launching unit operable to receive the address information held in said table unit, and operable to launch the following according to the address information held in said table unit: a first control process, which includes a management process common to the interrupt resources of the first type, for an interrupt generated by an interrupt resource of the first type; and a second control process, which does not include the management process, for an interrupt generated by an interrupt resource of the second type.