Patents by Inventor Jiuling Liu

Jiuling Liu 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).

  • System and method for automatically configuring a debug system
    Patent number: 6785850
    Abstract: The invention relates to a software system and method for configuring a software system for interaction with a hardware system. In this method, the software system (140) is executed on a host processor interconnected with the hardware system (103). A database (152) is accessed to obtain a description of a set of functional components present within the hardware system (103). A software representation (154) of the capabilities of each functional component is created by using the description of the set of functional components. Then, the software representation (154) is interrogated to determine a set of operational capabilities of the hardware system (103). The software system (140) is then operated in a manner that is responsive to the set of operational capabilities of the hardware system (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Dzoba, Gary L. Swoboda, Sambandam Manohar, Kenneth E. Aron, Leland J. Szewerenko, Paul Gingrich, Jiuling Liu, Alan L. Davis, Edmund Sim
  • Configurable debug system with wire list walking
    Patent number: 6708290
    Abstract: The invention relates to a software system and method for automatically determining capabilities of a hardware system to permit a software development system to support multiple hardware system architectures. In this method, the software system is executed on a host processor interconnected with the hardware system. A database is accessed to obtain a description of a set of functional components present within the hardware system. A software representation of the capabilities of each functional component is created by using the description of the set of functional components. Then, the software system accepts a request to perform a task that will use one or more of the functional components in the hardware system. The software representation is traversed to determine if the functional components are available to perform the requested task. If the components are available, the requested task is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gary L. Swoboda, Jiuling Liu
  • System and method for automatically configuring a debug system
    Publication number: 20010042226
    Abstract: The invention relates to a software system and method for configuring a software system for interaction with a hardware system. In this method, the software system (140) is executed on a host processor interconnected with the hardware system (103). A database (152) is accessed to obtain a description of a set of functional components present within the hardware system (103). A software representation (154) of the capabilities of each functional component is created by using the description of the set of functional components. Then, the software representation (154) is interrogated to determine a set of operational capabilities of the hardware system (103). The software system (140) is then operated in a manner that is responsive to the set of operational capabilities of the hardware system (103).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Jonathan Dzoba, Gary L. Swoboda, Sambandam Manohar, Kenneth E. Aron, Leland J. Szewerenko, Paul Gingrich, Jiuling Liu, Alan L. Davis, Edmund Sim
  • Configurable debug system with wire list walking
    Publication number: 20010034859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a software system and method for automatically determining capabilities of a hardware system to permit a software development system to support multiple hardware system architectures. In this method, the software system is executed on a host processor interconnected with the hardware system. A database is accessed to obtain a description of a set of functional components present within the hardware system. A software representation of the capabilities of each functional component is created by using the description of the set of functional components. Then, the software system accepts a request to perform a task that will use one or more of the functional components in the hardware system. The software representation is traversed to determine if the functional components are available to perform the requested task. If the components are available, the requested task is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Gary L. Swoboda, Jiuling Liu