Patents Represented by Attorney Micahel J. Buchenhorner

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  • Detecting program phases with periodic call-stack sampling during garbage collection
    Patent number: 7412694
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting phases in a running computer program, creates an activation count associated with each stack frame. The activation count is zeroed whenever a new frame is created in a stack and incremented for each frame encountered during periodic intervals. A phase is detected with an activation whose activation count is non-zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen J. Fink, David P. Grove