Patent 7305675 was granted and assigned to Advanced Micro Devices on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus is provided for processing tasks with failure recovery. The method includes storing one or more tasks in a queue, wherein each task has an associated exit routine, and determining at least one task to process based on a priority scheme. The method further includes processing the at least one task, and calling the exit routine based on determining that the task has not completed processing within a preselected period of time.