Patents by Inventor Jeff Kephart

Jeff Kephart 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).

  • Virtualized abstraction with built-in data alignment and simultaneous event monitoring in performance counter based application characterization and tuning
    Patent number: 8798962
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring a set of one or more event counters of application execution are provided. The techniques include constructing a virtual performance monitoring counter (VPMC) layer as a unified abstraction of a physical performance monitoring counter (PMC) architecture, and incorporating one or more programming interfaces (PIs) in connection with the virtual performance monitoring counter, wherein the one or more programming interfaces facilitate simultaneous access and data monitoring across a set of one or more event counters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pradip Bose, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Canturk Isci, Jeff Kephart, Xiaoqiao Meng, Ruhi Sarikaya
  • Virtualized Abstraction with Built-in Data Alignment and Simultaneous Event Monitoring in Performance Counter Based Application Characterization and Tuning
    Publication number: 20120245897
    Abstract: Techniques for monitoring a set of one or more event counters of application execution are provided. The techniques include constructing a virtual performance monitoring counter (VPMC) layer as a unified abstraction of a physical performance monitoring counter (PMC) architecture, and incorporating one or more programming interfaces (PIs) in connection with the virtual performance monitoring counter, wherein the one or more programming interfaces facilitate simultaneous access and data monitoring across a set of one or more event counters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Pradip Bose, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Canturk Isci, Jeff Kephart, Xiaoqiao Meng, Ruhi Sarikaya