Patents by Inventor Geert Oost

Geert Oost 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).

  • Reserved process and thread identifiers for tracing
    Patent number: 10216613
    Abstract: A system debugs software code and performs a method of debugging software code. The method includes starting execution of an instantiation of a process within the software code and determining whether the instantiation of the process corresponds with any entry in a database of reserved process identifiers (PIDs) and thread identifiers (TIDs). The system also includes assigning the PID and the TID from among the reserved PIDs and the TIDs in the database to the instantiation of the process based on the instantiation of the process corresponding with any entry in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kurosh Khan-Afshar Mohammadi, Daniel A. Koo Mo Shan, Geert Oost, Robert W. Thompson
  • RESERVED PROCESS AND THREAD IDENTIFIERS FOR TRACING
    Publication number: 20180052760
    Abstract: A system debugs software code and performs a method of debugging software code. The method includes starting execution of an instantiation of a process within the software code and determining whether the instantiation of the process corresponds with any entry in a database of reserved process identifiers (PIDs) and thread identifiers (TIDs). The system also includes assigning the PID and the TID from among the reserved PIDs and the TIDs in the database to the instantiation of the process based on the instantiation of the process corresponding with any entry in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Kurosh Khan-Afshar Mohammadi, Daniel A. Koo Mo Shan, Geert Oost, Robert W. Thompson