Patents by Inventor Eric Caspole

Eric Caspole 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, system, and apparatus to improve performance of multi-threaded computer programs
    Patent number: 6789253
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for improving performance of multi-threaded computer programs that re-establishes the lock structure that enables access to a portion of the computer memory and thereby reduces contention for computer memory. The present invention analyzes the references to computer memory and re-structures the memory access lock structure and thereby improves the use of regions of computer memory that are found to be mutually exclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Streich, Salil Pradhan, Eric Caspole
  • Debugging platform-independent software applications and related code components
    Publication number: 20030204838
    Abstract: A system and method for debugging a software application written in a platform-independent programming language, including non-application-code components invoked by the software application. The debugging tool and method can generate debugging metrics (e.g. debugging information and analysis) relating to both the software application and the non-application-code component invoked by the software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Eric Caspole, Joseph Coha, Ashish Karkare, Yanhua Li, Venkatesh Radhakrishnan