Patents by Inventor John B. YING

John B. YING 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).

  • Managing multi-threaded operations in a multimedia authoring environment
    Patent number: 9535768
    Abstract: Managing multi-threaded computer processing, including: processing a main thread for an object in background of the multi-threaded computer processing without locking the object during its process in the background, wherein processing a main thread includes: monitoring the state of the object, wherein the object is deemed ready for processing after it satisfies a set of rules to check for its completeness, and the object has not been modified for a pre-determined period of time; creating and adding tasks to a queue for processing once the object is ready; and packaging required information for the tasks into a single data structure that is passed to a task thread and returned to the main thread upon completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Jorge A. Reis, Michael K. Thompson, John B. Ying
  • MANAGING MULTI-THREADED OPERATIONS IN A MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20140019986
    Abstract: Managing multi-threaded computer processing, including: processing a main thread for an object in background of the multi-threaded computer processing without locking the object during its process in the background, wherein processing a main thread includes: monitoring the state of the object, wherein the object is deemed ready for processing after it satisfies a set of rules to check for its completeness, and the object has not been modified for a pre-determined period of time; creating and adding tasks to a queue for processing once the object is ready; and packaging required information for the tasks into a single data structure that is passed to a task thread and returned to the main thread upon completion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Jorge A. REIS, Michael K. THOMPSON, John B. YING