Patents by Inventor Ben-Chung Cheng

Ben-Chung Cheng 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).

  • Publication number: 20020010911
    Abstract: In compiling a program, the present algorithm first analyzes each function in the program as an isolated compilation unit where parameters and global variables are temporarily assumed to have uninitialized values. This stage of the algorithm, the intraprocedural phase, will summarize the intraprocedural behavior of a function in a flow-insensitive manner, including how it can affect memory accesses in the caller and callee functions, and how its memory accesses can be affected by the caller and callee functions. The summarized behavior of each function is the only information to be processed in the next stage, the interprocedural stage. A significant size reduction is achieved in the summarized representation as compared to the full function body. This facilitates aggressive optimization of even large programs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Ben-Chung Cheng, Wen-mei Hwu