Patents by Inventor Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe

Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe 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).

  • Prioritization of processes for deactivating processes to reduce memory pressure condition
    Patent number: 8997102
    Abstract: It is determined that a memory pressure condition exists which limits how many active processes are allowed. There is generated and stored of a set of values corresponding to parameters for each process where the parameters are related to priority factors assigned to the associated process. There is calculated a prioritization score for each process based on the corresponding set of values. There is determined a first active process with the lowest priority based on the prioritization scores. The first active process is deactivated to reduce the memory pressure condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: William Pohl, Walter J. Searle, Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe, Bradd William Szonye
  • Asynchronous wakeup mechanism that places reference to process on sleep queue if execution of copyout functionality is caused to sleep
    Patent number: 8214834
    Abstract: A system for asynchronous process sleep or wake management and corresponding methods thereof are described. The system comprises a sleep queue hash table, a process, and a first sleep object and a second sleep object. The first and second sleep objects each comprise a sleep queue and each of the first and second sleep objects are associated with the process. The system further comprises one or more kernel-space processes arranged to perform at least one of associating the first sleep object with the sleep queue hash table and designating the second sleep object to be used for sleeping the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Vasudevan Sangili, Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe, Swapneel Kekre
  • ASYNCHRONOUS WAKEUP MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20080270812
    Abstract: A system for asynchronous process sleep or wake management and corresponding methods thereof are described. The system comprises a sleep queue hash table, a process, and a first sleep object and a second sleep object. The first and second sleep objects each comprise a sleep queue and each of the first and second sleep objects are associated with the process. The system further comprises one or more kernel-space processes arranged to perform at least one of associating the first sleep object with the sleep queue hash table and designating the second sleep object to be used for sleeping the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Vasudevan Sangili, Chukwuma Valentine Akpuokwe, Swapneel Kekre