Patents by Inventor Maher Afif Saba

Maher Afif Saba 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).

  • Internal chaining technique for fixup records
    Patent number: 5878263
    Abstract: A method of indexing memory addresses associated with objects in a program file. In the prior art, a file has a single fixup record section which contains information necessary to determine memory addresses once the file is loaded onto the computer system. In the present invention, the fixup records are located within pages defined in the program file (e.g., data or text pages), and the fixup records are chained, that is, a given fixup record is based on a previous fixup record. In this manner, the overall size of the file is significantly reduced by reducing the collective size of all of the fixup records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Richard Fortin, Maher Afif Saba