Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Hickman Palermo Trong & Becker LLP
  • Reducing the memory footprint of a session duration semispace
    Patent number: 6279012
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing copying garbage collection is provided. In a computer's memory, objects are stored in a permanent semispace. When a garbage collection event is detected, a garbage collection cycle is commenced. During the garbage collection cycle, the live objects in the permanent semispace are copied into a temporary semispace. After copying all the live objects into the temporary semispace, the live objects are then recopied into the permanent semispace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Oracle Corporation
    Inventors: Harlan Sexton, Peter Benson, David Rosenberg