Patents by Inventor Jim Peterman

Jim Peterman 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).

  • Fast fragmentation free memory manager using multiple free block size access table for a free list
    Patent number: 5623654
    Abstract: A memory manager for operating a memory computing system, determines free block size of a free block size of a free block of a system memory to be used by an application program; determines an entry in a table having a table size less than a system size of said system memory, the entry being obtained by the free block size such that the entry may be obtained by at least two different free block sizes and each entry of the table having substantially the same number of free blocks accessing the table, accesses a free list through the entry in the table, said free list being associated with all of free blocks being of the free block size and requests one of the all of said free block of the free block size for an application to use in said memory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Jim Peterman