Patents by Inventor Julian Jiggins

Julian Jiggins 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).

  • Identifying a code library from the subset of base pointers that caused a failure generating instruction to be executed
    Patent number: 7321988
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method that traces program execution from an instruction that ultimately generated a failure to a code library that caused the failure generating instruction to be executed. The method traces execution of the computing device by obtaining the contents of memory at the time of the failure and traversing the stack data structure that stores data items necessary to execute function calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Quji Guo, Roberto A Franco, Edward J Praitis, Li-Hsin Huang, Jingyang Xu, Brian D Wentz, Julian Jiggins, Venkatavaradhan Panchapagesan
  • System and method of identifying the source of a failure
    Publication number: 20060005078
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to improving the stability of computing devices by identifying plug-in modules and other programs that cause failures. More specifically, the present invention provides a method that traces program execution from an instruction that ultimately generated a failure to a code library that caused the failure generating instruction to be executed. The method traces execution of the computing device by obtaining the contents of memory at the time of the failure and traversing the stack data structure that stores data items necessary to execute function calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Quji Guo, Roberto Franco, Edward Praitis, Li-Hsin Huang, Jingyang Xu, Brian Wentz, Julian Jiggins, Venkatavaradhan Panchapagesan