Patents by Inventor William F. Wise, Jr.

William F. Wise, Jr. 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).

  • Method and system for efficiently sharing array entries in a multiprocessing environment
    Patent number: 8386527
    Abstract: A method and a system efficiently and effectively share array entries among multiple threads of execution in a multiprocessor computer system. The invention comprises a method and an apparatus for array creation, a method and an apparatus for array entry data retrieval, a method and an apparatus for array entry data release, a method and an apparatus for array entry data modification, a method and an apparatus for array entry data modification release, a method and an apparatus for multiple array entry atomic release-and-renew, a method and an apparatus for array destruction, a method and an apparatus for specification of array entry discard strategy, a method and an apparatus for specification of array entry modification update strategy, and finally a method and an apparatus for specification of user-provided array entry data construction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Pocket Soft, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry N. Jones, William F. Wise, Jr.
  • Method and System for Efficiently Sharing Array Entries in a Multiprocessing Environment
    Publication number: 20110131586
    Abstract: A method and a system efficiently and effectively share array entries among multiple threads of execution in a multiprocessor computer system. The invention comprises a method and an apparatus for array creation, a method and an apparatus for array entry data retrieval, a method and an apparatus for array entry data release, a method and an apparatus for array entry data modification, a method and an apparatus for array entry data modification release, a method and an apparatus for multiple array entry atomic release-and-renew, a method and an apparatus for array destruction, a method and an apparatus for specification of array entry discard strategy, a method and an apparatus for specification of array entry modification update strategy, and finally a method and an apparatus for specification of user-provided array entry data construction method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: POCKET SOFT, INC.
    Inventors: Kerry N. Jones, William F. Wise, JR.
  • Method and apparatus for finding differences between two computer files efficiently in linear time and for using these differences to update computer files
    Patent number: 7143115
    Abstract: A method of updating a computer file from an old file into a new file comprises blocking the new file and the old file into fixed-size blocks, maintaining a window (collection of contiguous blocks) for each file on which lookup preprocessing has been performed, and performing match processing on each new file block in turn (comparing against both the old and new windows) using a key-sampling technique combined with approximate matching. For each new file block, the match information is then optimized for coding efficiency and encoded into a patch file that describes an algorithm for converting the old file into the new file. The patch file application method and apparatus then performs the algorithm described in the patch file. The method uses a fixed amount of random-access memory regardless of the sizes of the two files and uses no temporary mass storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Pocket Soft, Inc.
    Inventors: Kerry N. Jones, William F. Wise, Jr.