Patents by Inventor Christopher Thomasson

Christopher Thomasson 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).

  • System and method for reduced overhead in multithreaded programs
    Publication number: 20070067770
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method for: receiving a request at a polling thread from one application thread in a plurality of application threads to modify a data object shared by the plurality of application threads; determining if there are any persistent references to the data object by application threads in the plurality of application threads; and granting the request if there are no persistent references to the data object by application threads in the plurality of application threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Christopher Thomasson