Patents by Inventor Leslie J. Toomey

Leslie J. Toomey 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 for inserting constructs into compiled code, defining scoping of common blocks and dynamically binding common blocks to tasks
    Patent number: 5093916
    Abstract: A method performed within a multi-processing, multi-programming computer environment for reducing conflict among tasks concurrently accessing COMMON BLOCKs in code sequences compiled within said environment from a FORTRAN like language system, and for reducing the memory used in the storing of private copies of said COMMON BLOCKs. The method involves inserting constructs at compile time into the compiled code which enable the COMMON BLOCKs to be dynamically bound at runtime to two or more referencing tasks. Then, at execution time responsive to the constructs, the blocks are bound to the tasks dynamically and scoped so that they lie within the dynamic nesting of the tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan H. Karp, Randolph G. Scarborough, Alfred W. Shannon, Jin-Fan Shaw, Leslie J. Toomey