Patents by Inventor Imed E. Mbarki

Imed E. Mbarki 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 warm starting a system where the system includes region(s) of software code incapable of warm starting
    Patent number: 6721882
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for warm starting a system where the system includes region(s) of software code incapable of warm starting. More particularly, the invention is directed to a warm starting routine that includes determining in which of a plurality of regions of the software code that the code was being executed when an initiation of a warm start routine occurred. The determination is based, in a preferred embodiment, on the status of flags associated with the regions of the software code. Based on the results of the determination, the method of the present invention proceeds in a variety of defined manners to return the system to normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Imed E. Mbarki