Patents by Inventor Anand V. Deshpande

Anand V. Deshpande 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).

  • Context tracing for software with a frame pointer and a stack pointer and with a stack pointer but without a frame pointer
    Patent number: 7870541
    Abstract: A computer implemented method or computer readable code for determining function call history for a system, which runs both code with a frame pointer and a stack pointer and code with a stack pointer and without a frame pointer. Execution is frozen on at least one CPU. A function of plurality of functions that were executing on the at least one CPU is stepped through, where some of the plurality of functions have a frame pointer and a stack pointer and some of the plurality of functions have a stack pointer but do not have a frame pointer. The stack offset to the stack memory location, where the return address in parent function is stored, is calculated to find the return address in parent function, which called the function being stepped through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Wind River Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Anand V. Deshpande