Patents by Inventor Davis Cooper Augustine, Jr.

Davis Cooper Augustine, Jr. 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).

  • Method for efficient memory allocation of small data blocks
    Patent number: 6219772
    Abstract: A technique for efficient small block memory allocation in processors. One or more segments are allocated in the memory, wherein each segment is comprised of a plurality of data pages. A same size pool is created for a specified block size and one or more of the data pages are assigned to the same size pool, wherein the assigned data page is subdivided into a plurality of free blocks of the specified block size. A request for memory of the specified block size is satisfied by accessing the data page assigned to the same size pool and allocating one or more of the free blocks of the data page to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Ashok Kumar Gadangi, Davis Cooper Augustine, Jr., Kirk Ray Saathoff