Patents by Inventor Jerry W. Huff

Jerry W. Huff 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).

  • Generic software interface for hardware environments
    Publication number: 20040225864
    Abstract: A generic interface layer for providing a generic interface to a hardware environment for a program executing on the hardware environment. The generic interface layer is interrupt-driven. It includes driver code for devices in the hardware environment that is executed in response to software interrupts from the program and interrupt handling code for handling interrupts from the hardware environment. The interrupt handling code responds to an interrupt by calling a callback in the program. The generic interface layer includes a loader for loading the program and a debugger for controlling execution of the program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Stephen Gardner Worth, Jerry W. Huff, Paul A. Bong
  • Generic software interface for hardware environments having executing code registers itself and the code for a next suboperation
    Patent number: 6766519
    Abstract: A generic interface layer for providing a generic interface to a hardware environment for a program executing on the hardware environment. The generic interface layer, is interrupt-driven. It includes driver code for devices in the hardware environment that is executed in response to software interrupts from the program and interrupt handling code for handling interrupts from the hardware environment. The interrupt handling code responds to an interrupt by calling a callback in the program. The generic interface layer includes a loader for loading the program and a debugger for controlling execution of the program. Execution of code in the generic interface layer may be coordinated by the system timer interrupt code that is executed in response to a system timer interrupt. Code that is executing in the generic interface layer may register itself or other code with the system timer interrupt code, which then executes the code in response to a system timer interrupt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Lee Burriss, Stephen Gardner Worth, III, Jerry W. Huff, Paul A. Bong