Patents by Inventor Robert Milton Smith, II

Robert Milton Smith, II 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).

  • System and method for managing control flow of computer programs executing in a computer system
    Patent number: 5754855
    Abstract: Processing an event signifying a condition in a computer system is described. The computer system maintains an invocation stack which includes a plurality of stack frames. Such event processing operates by selecting a stack frame from the invocation stack, and then determining whether a user specified event processing procedure capable of processing the event has been registered with the selected stack frame. If a user specified event processing procedure has been so registered, then the event is processed using the user specified event processing procedure as specified by a set of rules and options defined for the disposition and/or processing of the specific event. Optionally, it is then determined whether a language specific event processing procedure capable of processing the event has been registered with the selected stack frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Sherman Miller, Timothy William Osborn, Robert Milton Smith, II, Michael Thomas Wheatley