Patents by Inventor James Richard Burns

James Richard Burns 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).

  • Apparatuses and methods for programming parallel computers
    Patent number: 6311265
    Abstract: A system provides an environment for parallel programming by providing a plurality of modular parallelizable operators stored in a computer readable memory. Each operator defines operation programming for performing an operation, one or more communication ports, each of which is either an input port for providing the operation programming a data stream of records, or an output port for receiving a data stream of records from the operation programming and an indication for each of the operator's input ports, if any, of a partitioning method to be applied to the data stream supplied to the input port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Torrent Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Beckerle, James Richard Burns, Jerry L. Callen, Jeffrey D. Ives, Robert L. Krawitz, Daniel L. Leary, Seven Rosenthal, Edward S. A. Zyzkowski