Patents by Inventor Gregory Hamerly

Gregory Hamerly 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 and apparatus for identifying similar regions of a program's execution
    Patent number: 7802236
    Abstract: A method and architecture for analyzing a computer program by finding similar sections of execution of the computer program. Code of the computer program is run over a plurality of intervals of execution, and during the execution of the program, a statistic is tracked for a component. Using the tracked statistic, behavior of the computer program is identified over each of the plurality of intervals of execution, and at least one identified behavior of at least one interval of execution is compared to the behavior of another interval of execution to find similar sections of behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Brad Calder, Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Gregory Hamerly
  • Method and apparatus for identifying similar regions of a program's execution
    Publication number: 20040111708
    Abstract: A method and architecture for analyzing a computer program by finding similar sections of execution of the computer program. Code of the computer program is run over a plurality of intervals of execution, and during the execution of the program, a statistic is tracked for a component. Using the tracked statistic, behavior of the computer program is identified over each of the plurality of intervals of execution, and at least one identified behavior of at least one interval of execution is compared to the behavior of another interval of execution to find similar sections of behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Brad Calder, Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Gregory Hamerly