Patents by Inventor Daniel Hecht

Daniel Hecht 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).

  • POST-COMPILE INSTRUMENTATION OF OBJECT CODE FOR GENERATING EXECUTION TRACE DATA
    Publication number: 20070006159
    Abstract: The invention is directed to instrumenting object code of an application and/or an operating system on a target machine so that execution trace data can be generated, collected, and subsequently analyzed for various purposes, such as debugging and performance. Automatic instrumentation may be performed on an application's object code before, during or after linking. A target machine's operating system's object code can be manually or automatically instrumented. By identifying address space switches and thread switches in the operating system's object code, instrumented code can be inserted at locations that enable the execution trace data to be generated. The instrumentation of the operating system and application can enable visibility of total system behavior by enabling generation of trace information sufficient to reconstruct address space switches and context switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: Green Hills Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Hecht, Michael Lindahl, David Kleidermacher
  • Post-compile instrumentation of object code for generating execution trace data
    Publication number: 20060190930
    Abstract: The invention is directed to instrumenting object code of an application and/or an operating system on a target machine so that execution trace data can be generated, collected, and subsequently analyzed for various purposes, such as debugging and performance. Automatic instrumentation may be performed on an application's object code before, during or after linking. A target machine's operating system's object code can be manually or automatically instrumented. By identifying address space switches and thread switches in the operating system's object code, instrumented code can be inserted at locations that enable the execution trace data to be generated. The instrumentation of the operating system and application can enable visibility of total system behavior by enabling generation of trace information sufficient to reconstruct address space switches and context switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Daniel Hecht, Michael Lindahl, David Kleidermacher, Gregory Davis, Neil Puthuff