Patents by Inventor Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman 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).
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Patent number: 11662983Abstract: A computer-implemented method for bytecode class verification includes: encountering a class requiring verification of its bytecode during a run of an application; determining whether class relationship data for the class exists in a shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does not exist in the shared classes cache: performing a linear bytecode walk of the bytecode to identify relationship data for the class and verify that the bytecode is well-formed; and storing the identified relationship data as the class relationship data for the class in the shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does exist in the shared classes cache: retrieving the class relationship data for the class from the shared classes cache; and processing the class relationship data.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sharon Wang, Daniel Heidinga, Hang Shao, Oluwatobi Ajila, Graham Chapman
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Publication number: 20220283785Abstract: A computer-implemented method for bytecode class verification includes: encountering a class requiring verification of its bytecode during a run of an application; determining whether class relationship data for the class exists in a shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does not exist in the shared classes cache: performing a linear bytecode walk of the bytecode to identify relationship data for the class and verify that the bytecode is well-formed; and storing the identified relationship data as the class relationship data for the class in the shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does exist in the shared classes cache: retrieving the class relationship data for the class from the shared classes cache; and processing the class relationship data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Sharon WANG, Daniel HEIDINGA, Hang SHAO, Oluwatobi AJILA, Graham CHAPMAN
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Patent number: 11403075Abstract: A computer-implemented method for bytecode class verification includes: encountering a class requiring verification of its bytecode during a run of an application; determining whether class relationship data for the class exists in a shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does not exist in the shared classes cache: performing a linear bytecode walk of the bytecode to identify relationship data for the class and verify that the bytecode is well-formed; and storing the identified relationship data as the class relationship data for the class in the shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does exist in the shared classes cache: retrieving the class relationship data for the class from the shared classes cache; and processing the class relationship data.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sharon Wang, Daniel Heidinga, Hang Shao, Oluwatobi Ajila, Graham Chapman
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Patent number: 11155702Abstract: A degradable polymer composition comprising: (a) a polyolefin; (b) two or more transition metal compounds in a total amount of from 0.15 to 0.6 wt %, (c) a mono- or poly-unsaturated C14-C24 carboxylic acid, or an ester, anhydride or amide thereof, in an amount of from 0.04 to 0.08 wt %; (d) a synthetic rubber in an amount of from 0.04 to 0.2 wt %; and, optionally: (e) dry starch in an amount of from 0 to 20 wt %; and/or (f) calcium oxide in an amount of from 0 to 1 wt %; and/or (g) a phenolic antioxidant stabilizer in an amount of from 0 to 0.2 wt %; wherein the two or more transition metal compounds are selected from iron, manganese, copper, cobalt and cerium compounds and wherein the transition metals in the two or more transition metal compounds are different.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Polymateria LimitedInventors: Graham Chapman, Christopher Wallis, Gavin Hill
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Patent number: 11086776Abstract: A method of maintaining correctness of pointers from a managed heap to off-heap memory includes storing in a cache a first heap object in a managed heap that holds at least one off-heap pointer pointing to a first off-heap data structure and creating a weak reference node linked to the first heap object such that the first heap object is not kept alive by the weak reference node during garbage collection. Further disclosed are systems for maintaining correctness of pointers from a managed heap to off-heap memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Bjoern Vaardal, Daniel Heidinga, Graham Chapman
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Publication number: 20210157552Abstract: A computer-implemented method for bytecode class verification includes: encountering a class requiring verification of its bytecode during a run of an application; determining whether class relationship data for the class exists in a shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does not exist in the shared classes cache: performing a linear bytecode walk of the bytecode to identify relationship data for the class and verify that the bytecode is well-formed; and storing the identified relationship data as the class relationship data for the class in the shared classes cache; in response to a determination that the class relationship data for the class does exist in the shared classes cache: retrieving the class relationship data for the class from the shared classes cache; and processing the class relationship data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Sharon WANG, Daniel HEIDINGA, Hang SHAO, Oluwatobi AJILA, Graham CHAPMAN
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Patent number: 10795800Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that count for an application thread levels of critical sections of program code, and in response to a program exception in the application thread that is deferrable and a non-zero count of the levels of critical sections, execute a remainder of program code within the critical sections of program code.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Peter Douglas Bain, Graham A. Chapman, Dan Heidinga
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Publication number: 20200081818Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide devices that count for an application thread levels of critical sections of program code, and in response to a program exception in the application thread that is deferrable and a non-zero count of the levels of critical sections, execute a remainder of program code within the critical sections of program code.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Peter Douglas Bain, Graham A. Chapman, DAN HEIDINGA
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Publication number: 20200073797Abstract: A method of maintaining correctness of pointers from a managed heap to off-heap memory includes storing in a cache a first heap object in a managed heap that holds at least one off-heap pointer pointing to a first off-heap data structure and creating a weak reference node linked to the first heap object such that the first heap object is not kept alive by the weak reference node during garbage collection. Further disclosed are systems for maintaining correctness of pointers from a managed heap to off-heap memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Bjoern Vaardal, Dan Heidinga, Graham Chapman
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Patent number: 10570263Abstract: A sheet material formed of a degradeable composition comprising 30 to 80 wt % calcium carbonate, an additive, and the balance a polymer selected from polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymers and blends thereof. The additive comprises (a) two or more transition metal compounds, (b) a mono- or poly-unsaturated C14-C24 carboxylic acid, or an ester, anhydride or amide thereof, (c) a synthetic rubber. The addition optionally comprises (d) dry starch, and/or (e) calcium oxide, and/or (f) a phenolic antioxidant stabilizer. The two or more transition metal compounds are selected from iron, manganese, copper, zinc, titanium, cobalt and cerium compounds and the transition metals in the two or more transition metal compounds are different.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Polymateria LimitedInventors: Christopher Wallis, Graham Chapman, Gavin Hill
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Publication number: 20190352476Abstract: A sheet material formed of a degradeable composition comprising 30 to 80 wt % calcium carbonate, an additive, and the balance a polymer selected from polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymers and blends thereof. The additive comprises (a) two or more transition metal compounds, (b) a mono- or poly-unsaturated C14-C24 carboxylic acid, or an ester, anhydride or amide thereof, (c) a synthetic rubber. The addition optionally comprises (d) dry starch, and/or (e) calcium oxide, and/or (f) a phenolic antioxidant stabilizer. The two or more transition metal compounds are selected from iron, manganese, copper, zinc, titanium, cobalt and cerium compounds and the transition metals in the two or more transition metal compounds are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: POLYMATERIA LIMITEDInventors: Christopher Wallis, Graham Chapman, Gavin Hill
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Publication number: 20190309147Abstract: A degradable polymer composition comprising: (a) a polyolefin; (b) two or more transition metal compounds in a total amount of from 0.15 to 0.6 wt %, (c) a mono- or poly-unsaturated C14-C24 carboxylic acid, or an ester, anhydride or amide thereof, in an amount of from 0.04 to 0.08 wt %; (d) a synthetic rubber in an amount of from 0.04 to 0.2 wt %; and, optionally: (e) dry starch in an amount of from 0 to 20 wt %; and/or (f) calcium oxide in an amount of from 0 to 1 wt %; and/or (g) a phenolic antioxidant stabilizer in an amount of from 0 to 0.2 wt %; wherein the two or more transition metal compounds are selected from iron, manganese, copper, cobalt and cerium compounds and wherein the transition metals in the two or more transition metal compounds are different.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: POLYMATERIA LIMITEDInventors: Graham Chapman, Christopher Wallis, Gavin Hill
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Patent number: 10061570Abstract: In an approach for removing tenant initialization check per tenant for compiled code, a processor receives a request to create a tenant. A processor creates the tenant. A processor marks a current thread of the tenant as not eligible to run just-in-time (JIT) code, wherein the marking indicates that when a method is invoked, a non-JIT version of the method is executed. A processor executes initialization of a first class from an optimization list, wherein the optimization list is a configurable list of classes to be initialized prior to running JIT code. A processor determines that class initialization has been executed for all classes on the optimization list. A processor adjusts the marking to indicate that the current thread is eligible to run JIT code and that the tenant may run JIT code that assumes, without checking, that classes on the optimization list are initialized.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Graham A. Chapman, Michael H. Dawson, San Hong Li, Hui Shi
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Patent number: 9588778Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, system, and computer program product for a JNI object access system. A computer receives a JNI reference and obtains the pointer data and call site of the referenced object. The computer determines whether a record of the object and call site exist and, if not, the respective records are created. The computer applies a heuristic analysis of the object and call site in which it determines whether the object is larger than a threshold size, whether the object is part of a particular region of the heap, whether the call site is associated with a read-only or a read-write function, and whether the object or call site has caused more non-moving garbage collections than a threshold number. Based on the heuristic, the computer either copies the object data or pins the object and any non-moving garbage collections are recorded.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Graham A. Chapman, Charles R. Gracie, Daniel J. Heidinga, Karl M. Taylor
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Publication number: 20170017474Abstract: In an approach for removing tenant initialization check per tenant for compiled code, a processor receives a request to create a tenant. A processor creates the tenant. A processor marks a current thread of the tenant as not eligible to run just-in-time (JIT) code, wherein the marking indicates that when a method is invoked, a non-JIT version of the method is executed. A processor executes initialization of a first class from an optimization list, wherein the optimization list is a configurable list of classes to be initialized prior to running JIT code. A processor determines that class initialization has been executed for all classes on the optimization list. A processor adjusts the marking to indicate that the current thread is eligible to run JIT code and that the tenant may run JIT code that assumes, without checking, that classes on the optimization list are initialized.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Graham A. Chapman, Michael H. Dawson, San Hong Li, Hui Shi
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Publication number: 20160378508Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, system, and computer program product for a JNI object access system. A computer receives a JNI reference and obtains the pointer data and call site of the referenced object. The computer determines whether a record of the object and call site exist and, if not, the respective records are created. The computer applies a heuristic analysis of the object and call site in which it determines whether the object is larger than a threshold size, whether the object is part of a particular region of the heap, whether the call site is associated with a read-only or a read-write function, and whether the object or call site has caused more non-moving garbage collections than a threshold number. Based on the heuristic, the computer either copies the object data or pins the object and any non-moving garbage collections are recorded.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Graham A. Chapman, Charles R. Gracie, Daniel J. Heidinga, Karl M. Taylor
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Patent number: 9495185Abstract: In an approach for removing tenant initialization check per tenant for compiled code, a processor receives a request to create a tenant. A processor creates the tenant. A processor marks a current thread of the tenant as not eligible to run just-in-time (JIT) code, wherein the marking indicates that when a method is invoked, a non-JIT version of the method is executed. A processor executes initialization of a first class from an optimization list, wherein the optimization list is a configurable list of classes to be initialized prior to running JIT code. A processor determines that class initialization has been executed for all classes on the optimization list. A processor adjusts the marking to indicate that the current thread is eligible to run JIT code and that the tenant may run JIT code that assumes, without checking, that classes on the optimization list are initialized.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Graham A. Chapman, Michael H. Dawson, San Hong Li, Hui Shi
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Patent number: 9495184Abstract: In an approach for removing tenant initialization check per tenant for compiled code, a processor receives a request to create a tenant. A processor creates the tenant. A processor marks a current thread of the tenant as not eligible to run just-in-time (JIT) code, wherein the marking indicates that when a method is invoked, a non-JIT version of the method is executed. A processor executes initialization of a first class from an optimization list, wherein the optimization list is a configurable list of classes to be initialized prior to running JIT code. A processor determines that class initialization has been executed for all classes on the optimization list. A processor adjusts the marking to indicate that the current thread is eligible to run JIT code and that the tenant may run JIT code that assumes, without checking, that classes on the optimization list are initialized.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Oluwatobi A. Ajila, Graham A. Chapman, Michael H. Dawson, San Hong Li, Hui Shi
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Patent number: D944165Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: CLEARVIEW TOWING MIRRORS PTY LTD.Inventors: Michael Cowan, Paul McCormack, Jay Praag, Graham Chapman
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Patent number: D944166Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: CLEARVIEW TOWING MIRRORS PTY LTDInventors: Michael Cowan, Paul McCormack, Jay Praag, Graham Chapman