Patents by Inventor Paul J. Kilpatrick

Paul J. Kilpatrick 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).

  • Profile-based preprocessor for optimizing programs
    Patent number: 5613118
    Abstract: The present invention is an system and method for optimizing a program, having qualified elements, at the source level. The method includes the steps of instrumenting each path of the qualified elements to create an instrumented program, executing the instrumented program to produce instrumentation information for each of the paths, analyzing the instrumentation information, and in response to the analyzing step, restructuring the program to create an optimize program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Randall R. Heisch, Paul J. Kilpatrick
  • Nested resource control using locking and unlocking routines with use counter for plural processes
    Patent number: 4435766
    Abstract: A mechanism allowing nested resource locks among a plurality of related programs is provided by means of a lock counter which is incremented and decremented as programs LOCK and UNLOCK a resource but the resource is not released until a count is zero. A separate LOCK counter is provided for each resource in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Judith G. Haber, Kenneth L. Jeffries, Paul J. Kilpatrick