Patents by Inventor Alicia Elena Chin

Alicia Elena Chin 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).

  • Interleave-scheduling of correlated tasks and backfill-scheduling of depender tasks into a slot of dependee tasks
    Patent number: 9836324
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for assembling tasks in a progressive queue. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task. The dependee tasks are assembled in a progressive queue for execution, and the dependee tasks are executed. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Michael Feiman, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang
  • Managing data segments in memory for context switching with standalone fetch and merge services
    Patent number: 9785466
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for managing data segments. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task, and the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is executed. There is extracted, from the at least one of the dependee set of tasks, at least one service common to at least another of the dependee set of tasks. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang
  • Detection of time points to voluntarily yield resources for context switching
    Patent number: 9785469
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for yielding resources in data processing. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task, and the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is executed. At least one resource of the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is yielded upon detection of resource underutilization in at least one other location. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang
  • DETECTION OF TIME POINTS TO VOLUNTARILY YIELD RESOURCES FOR CONTEXT SWITCHING
    Publication number: 20150227394
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for yielding resources in data processing. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task, and the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is executed. At least one resource of the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is yielded upon detection of resource underutilization in at least one other location. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang
  • MANAGING DATA SEGMENTS IN MEMORY FOR CONTEXT SWITCHING WITH STANDALONE FETCH AND MERGE SERVICES
    Publication number: 20150227399
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for managing data segments. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task, and the at least one of the dependee set of tasks is executed. There is extracted, from the at least one of the dependee set of tasks, at least one service common to at least another of the dependee set of tasks. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang
  • INTERLEAVE-SCHEDULING OF CORRELATED TASKS AND BACKFILL-SCHEDULING OF DEPENDER TASKS INTO A SLOT OF DEPENDEE TASKS
    Publication number: 20150227389
    Abstract: Methods and arrangements for assembling tasks in a progressive queue. At least one job is received, each job comprising a dependee set of tasks and a depender set of at least one task. The dependee tasks are assembled in a progressive queue for execution, and the dependee tasks are executed. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alicia Elena Chin, Michael Feiman, Yonggang Hu, Zhenhua Hu, Shicong Meng, Xiaoqiao Meng, Jian Tan, Li Zhang