Patents by Inventor Gregory Eigsti

Gregory Eigsti 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).

  • Translation and transformation of heterogeneous programs
    Patent number: 7197748
    Abstract: Each component binary in a heterogeneous program is translated from a platform-specific instruction set into a set of intermediate representation (IR) instructions that are platform-neutral. The IR instructions are grouped into IR code blocks, the IR code blocks into IR procedures, and the IR procedures into IR components to create an intermediate representation hierarchy for the program. An application program interface is provided that permits user access to the IR hierarchy for instrumentation, optimization, navigation, and manipulation of the IR hierarchy. The transformed IR hierarchy is then translated into platform-specific instructions and output as a modified binary. The user can designate a different platform for the output translation of a code block than the platform for which the code block was originally written. Prologue and epilog code is added to contiguous blocks that are translated into different architectures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronnie I. Chaiken, Hon Keat W. Chan, Andrew J. Edwards, Gregory A. Eigsti, David M. Gillies, Bruce M. Kuramoto, John A. Lefor, Ken B. Pierce, Amitabh Srivastava, Hoi H. Vo, Gideon A. Yuval
  • Translation and transformation of heterogeneous programs
    Publication number: 20050010891
    Abstract: Each component binary in a heterogeneous program is translated from a platform-specific instruction set into a set of intermediate representation (IR) instructions that are platform-neutral. The IR instructions are grouped into IR code blocks, the IR code blocks into IR procedures, and the IR procedures into IR components to create an intermediate representation hierarchy for the program. An application program interface is provided that permits user access to the IR hierarchy for instrumentation, optimization, navigation, and manipulation of the IR hierarchy. The transformed IR hierarchy is then translated into platform-specific instructions and output as a modified binary. The user can designate a different platform for the output translation of a code block than the platform for which the code block was originally written. Prologue and epilog code is added to contiguous blocks that are translated into different architectures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronnie Chaiken, Hon Keat Chan, Andrew Edwards, Gregory Eigsti, David Gillies, Bruce Kuramoto, John Lefor, Ken Pierce, Amitabh Srivastava, Hoi Vo, Gideon Yuval
  • Translation and transformation of heterogeneous programs
    Patent number: 6802056
    Abstract: Each component binary in a heterogeneous program is translated from a platform-specific instruction set into a set of intermediate representation (IR) instructions that are platform-neutral. The IR instructions are grouped into IR code blocks, the IR code blocks into IR procedures, and the IR procedures into IR components to create an intermediate representation hierarchy for the program. An application program interface is provided that permits user access to the IR hierarchy for instrumentation, optimization, navigation, and manipulation of the IR hierarchy. The transformed IR hierarchy is then translated into platform-specific instructions and output as a modified binary. The user can designate a different platform for the output translation of a code block than the platform for which the code block was originally written. Prologue and epilog code is added to contiguous blocks that are translated into different architectures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ronnie I. Chaiken, Hon Keat W. Chan, Andrew J. Edwards, Gregory A. Eigsti, David M. Gillies, Bruce M. Kuramoto, John A. Lefor, Ken B. Pierce, Amitabh Srivastava, Hoi H. Vo, Gideon A. Yuval