Patents by Inventor John W. Jacobson

John W. Jacobson 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).

  • Patent number: 5530942
    Abstract: An interactive user interface system and method that creates graphic and text displays of computer program execution analysis results that include CPU execution time in tick or frequency counts. The interface system utilizes a display monitor (120), a mouse (130), which enables a user to input display commands, and a computer system (110) that is connected to the monitor (120) and the mouse (120). The computer system includes analysis results (165) and a user interface routine (170); the latter for displaying a plurality of, e.g., four windows (201, 280, 290, 291) on the monitor. The first and second windows (201, 290) have both text displays (214, 292) for displaying an annotated summary report (166), an annotated source listing (167) and an annotated assembly listing (168), and graphics displays (213, 298) for displaying graphs (256, 266, 294) of the counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheu-Fang M. Tzou, John W. Jacobson