Patents by Inventor Ian William James Halliday

Ian William James Halliday 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).

  • Stepping out of an asynchronous method into its continuation in a debugger
    Patent number: 8893090
    Abstract: Stepping out of an asynchronous process. A method includes, as part of a computer program execution, at a caller, making an asynchronous function call from the caller to a callee. Associated with the asynchronous function call a continuation waits for the completion of the callee with respect to the asynchronous function call. The method further includes correlating a debugging indicator to the callee indicating that a user wishes to step out of the caller when the callee returns. An indication of completion of the callee with respect to the asynchronous function call and that a user wishes to step from the callee to the continuation is received. The debugging indicator is referenced and based on the debugging indicator execution at entry into the continuation is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ian William James Halliday, Gregg Bernard Miskelly, Stephen H. Toub, Dmitry Lomov
  • STEPPING OUT OF AN ASYNCHRONOUS METHOD INTO ITS CONTINUATION IN A DEBUGGER
    Publication number: 20120266144
    Abstract: Stepping out of an asynchronous process. A method includes, as part of a computer program execution, at a caller, making an asynchronous function call from the caller to a callee. Associated with the asynchronous function call a continuation waits for the completion of the callee with respect to the asynchronous function call. The method further includes correlating a debugging indicator to the callee indicating that a user wishes to step out of the caller when the callee returns. An indication of completion of the callee with respect to the asynchronous function call and that a user wishes to step from the callee to the continuation is received. The debugging indicator is referenced and based on the debugging indicator execution at entry into the continuation is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ian William James Halliday, Gregg Bernard Miskelly, Stephen H. Toub, Dmitry Lomov