Patents by Inventor Jean-Claude Syre

Jean-Claude Syre has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4931931
    Abstract: In a method for processing logic programs--especially in Prolog-like languages--using at least one processor, which allows parallelism--also retroactively--by an existing process, called "father", creating at optional OR-parallel nodes at least one process, called "son", standing in an OR-parallel relationship to the father, a deep-binding list, called "hash-window" is created only for the newly created son in which--while processing the split-off OR-parallel branch--it performs bindings to variables commonly accessible to it and its father, called "commonly accessible variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Syre, Harald Westphal, Max Hailperin