Patents by Inventor Leroy Francis Bernhard, III

Leroy Francis Bernhard, III 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).

  • Cooperative memory management
    Patent number: 8892827
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for selecting one or more applications running in a data processing system to reduce memory usage according to information received from the applications are described. Notifications specifying the information including application specific memory management capabilities may be received from the applications. A status of memory usage indicating lack of available memory may be determined to notify the selected applications. Accordingly, the notified applications may perform operations for application specific memory management to increase available memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Leroy Francis Bernhard, III, Lionel Divyang Desai, Matthew Harris Jacobson
  • COOPERATIVE MEMORY MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20120179882
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for selecting one or more applications running in a data processing system to reduce memory usage according to information received from the applications are described. Notifications specifying the information including application specific memory management capabilities may be received from the applications. A status of memory usage indicating lack of available memory may be determined to notify the selected applications. Accordingly, the notified applications may perform operations for application specific memory management to increase available memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: Leroy Francis Bernhard, III, Lionel Divyang Desai, Matthew Harris Jacobson