Patents by Inventor Howard Hellyer

Howard Hellyer 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).

  • Patent number: 11263130
    Abstract: A system and related method for managing memory in data processing comprises allocating each of a plurality of application containers a respective portion of a memory communicatively coupled to a plurality of processing units. The method further comprises allocating each of the plurality of application containers a respective group of the plurality of processing units and allocating, to each of the plurality of application containers, nursery and tenured heap spaced in the memory. The method then comprises performing, responsive to a request from an application container, garbage collection from the nursery and tenured heap spaces allocated to the application container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Hellyer, Adam John Pilkington, Richard Chamberlain
  • Patent number: 11153227
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. One example comprises monitoring traffic between a plurality of microservices to determine a property of the traffic. Embodiments of the present invention can then, based on the determined property of the monitored traffic, relocate each of the plurality of microservices from its respective origin resource to a shared resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Chamberlain, Adam John Pilkington, Howard Hellyer
  • Patent number: 10997057
    Abstract: A method for debugging asynchronous functions in a computer system that implements a runtime stack when executing a program includes, in response to an asynchronous called function being invoked by a calling function of a first execution thread, copying active stack frames of the runtime stack and storing the copied active stack frames as a duplicate stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Howard Hellyer, Richard Chamberlain, Adam J. Pilkington
  • Publication number: 20210011848
    Abstract: A system and related method for managing memory in data processing comprises allocating each of a plurality of application containers a respective portion of a memory communicatively coupled to a plurality of processing units. The method further comprises allocating each of the plurality of application containers a respective group of the plurality of processing units and allocating, to each of the plurality of application containers, nursery and tenured heap spaced in the memory. The method then comprises performing, responsive to a request from an application container, garbage collection from the nursery and tenured heap spaces allocated to the application container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Howard Hellyer, Adam John Pilkington, Richard Chamberlain
  • Publication number: 20200159641
    Abstract: A method for debugging asynchronous functions in a computer system that implements a runtime stack when executing a program includes, in response to an asynchronous called function being invoked by a calling function of a first execution thread, copying active stack frames of the runtime stack and storing the copied active stack frames as a duplicate stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Howard Hellyer, Richard Chamberlain, Adam J. Pilkington
  • Patent number: 9141453
    Abstract: A method for creating diagnostic files that includes receiving an error notification indicating that an error has occurred in a particular system section of a system that has a plurality of system sections. The error notification includes information about the error. A diagnostic file that includes a summarized error report of the particular system section is created based on the information included in the error notification. The diagnostic file is saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard N. Chamberlain, Blazej Czapp, Howard Hellyer, Matthew F. Peters, Adam J. Pilkington
  • Patent number: 7765094
    Abstract: Performance profiling of software by producing a performance profile of a software processing unit and performing statistical analysis on the performance profile by matching the performance profile with at least one additional performance profile. An algorithmic approach is used to match data related to processes and/or threads and/or similar processing units (PU) over multiple performance profiles. One purpose of the matching algorithm is to identify such PU in order to enable computation of an accumulated or averaged dataset over multiple profiling periods. Various matching strategies, filters, and preprocessing techniques are described, together with level of reliability estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Bodden, Christopher James Robin Goodfellow, Howard Hellyer
  • Publication number: 20060101421
    Abstract: Performance profiling of software by producing a performance profile of a software processing unit and performing statistical analysis on the performance profile by matching the performance profile with at least one additional performance profile. An algorithmic approach is used to match data related to processes and/or threads and/or similar processing units (PU) over multiple performance profiles. One purpose of the matching algorithm is to identify such PU in order to enable computation of an accumulated or averaged dataset over multiple profiling periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Eric Bodden, Christopher Goodfellow, Howard Hellyer