Patents by Inventor Felicity J. Merrison

Felicity J. Merrison 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).

  • Automated and heuristically managed solution to quantify CPU and path length cost of instructions added, changed or removed by a service team
    Patent number: 10169002
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for qualifying changes to an instruction set in source code. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for quantifying changes to an instruction set in source code can be provided. The method can include receiving text in a code editor as an edit to source code of a computer program querying a data store of code change costs with at least a portion of the edit. The method additionally can include retrieving in response to the query a code change cost associated with the edit. Finally, the method can include displaying in the code editor the retrieved code change cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicola J. Bennett, David J. Harman, David E. Knibb, Felicity J. Merrison, Andrew Wright
  • AUTOMATED AND HEURISTICALLY MANAGED SOLUTION TO QUANTIFY CPU AND PATH LENGTH COST OF INSTRUCTIONS ADDED, CHANGED OR REMOVED BY A SERVICE TEAM
    Publication number: 20170097812
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for qualifying changes to an instruction set in source code. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for quantifying changes to an instruction set in source code can be provided. The method can include receiving text in a code editor as an edit to source code of a computer program querying a data store of code change costs with at least a portion of the edit. The method additionally can include retrieving in response to the query a code change cost associated with the edit. Finally, the method can include displaying in the code editor the retrieved code change cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Nicola J. Bennett, David J. Harman, David E. Knibb, Felicity J. Merrison, Andrew Wright
  • Automated and heuristically managed solution to quantify CPU and path length cost of instructions added, changed or removed by a service team
    Patent number: 9552202
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for qualifying changes to an instruction set in source code. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for quantifying changes to an instruction set in source code can be provided. The method can include receiving text in a code editor as an edit to source code of a computer program querying a data store of code change costs with at least a portion of the edit. The method additionally can include retrieving in response to the query a code change cost associated with the edit. Finally, the method can include displaying in the code editor the retrieved code change cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicola J. Bennett, David J. Harman, David E. Knibb, Felicity J. Merrison, Andrew Wright
  • AUTOMATED AND HEURISTICALLY MANAGED SOLUTION TO QUANTIFY CPU AND PATH LENGTH COST OF INSTRUCTIONS ADDED, CHANGED OR REMOVED BY A SERVICE TEAM
    Publication number: 20130152042
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for qualifying changes to an instruction set in source code. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for quantifying changes to an instruction set in source code can be provided. The method can include receiving text in a code editor as an edit to source code of a computer program querying a data store of code change costs with at least a portion of the edit. The method additionally can include retrieving in response to the query a code change cost associated with the edit. Finally, the method can include displaying in the code editor the retrieved code change cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nicola J. Bennett, David J. Harman, David E. Knibb, Felicity J. Merrison, Andrew Wright