Patents by Inventor Jack Carl Erickson

Jack Carl Erickson 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).

  • Publication number: 20210157595
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor core to: receive a request to execute application code including a trigger instruction and an instruction block that reads a row of data values from a data structure and outputs a data value from a function using the row as input, wherein the data structure is divided into multiple portions and the trigger instruction indicates that multiple instances of the instruction block are to be executed concurrently; and in response to the request, and to identification of the instruction block and trigger instruction: generate multiple instances of a support block that causes independent repetitive execution of each instance of the instruction block until all rows of the corresponding portion of the data structure are used as input; assign instances of the instruction and support blocks to multiple processor cores; and provide each instance of the instruction block with the corresponding portion of the data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Joseph Rouse, Robert William Pratt, Jack Carl Erickson, Manoj Keshavmurthi Chari