Patents by Inventor Christopher D. Erb

Christopher D. Erb 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).

  • Detecting buffer overflows in general-purpose GPU applications
    Patent number: 10067710
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of memory regions each corresponding to a memory address and configured to store data associated with the corresponding memory address. The processing apparatus also includes an accelerated processing device in communication with the memory regions and configured to determine a request to allocate an initial memory buffer comprising a number of contiguous memory regions, create a new memory buffer comprising one or more additional memory regions adjacent to the contiguous memory regions of the initial memory buffer, assign one or more values to the one or more additional memory regions and detect a change to the one or more values at the one or more additional memory regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph L. Greathouse, Christopher D. Erb, Michael G. Collins
  • DETECTING BUFFER OVERFLOWS IN GENERAL-PURPOSE GPU APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20180143781
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of memory regions each corresponding to a memory address and configured to store data associated with the corresponding memory address. The processing apparatus also includes an accelerated processing device in communication with the memory regions and configured to determine a request to allocate an initial memory buffer comprising a number of contiguous memory regions, create a new memory buffer comprising one or more additional memory regions adjacent to the contiguous memory regions of the initial memory buffer, assign one or more values to the one or more additional memory regions and detect a change to the one or more values at the one or more additional memory regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph L. Greathouse, Christopher D. Erb, Michael G. Collins