Patents by Inventor Marcus Theodore Chernenko Karpoff

Marcus Theodore Chernenko Karpoff 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).

  • Method to manage multiple versions of parts of a software application and to retire older versions in a dynamically updatable software system
    Patent number: 10564955
    Abstract: An embodiment method for retiring a dynamically updatable function includes receiving, by a collector-thread, a registration of the function, wherein the registration indicates to the collector-thread addresses of memory locations for counters that count a number of calls currently being made to a previous version of the function by a plurality of execution threads; reading, by the collector-thread, values of the counters; and when the values of all the counters are zero, deleting, by the collector-thread, the function from a storage medium on a device previously executing the previous version of the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Marcus Theodore Chernenko Karpoff, Jose Nelson Amaral, Kai-Ting Amy Wang, Brice Adam Dobry
  • METHOD TO MANAGE MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF PARTS OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION AND TO RETIRE OLDER VERSIONS IN A DYNAMICALLY UPDATABLE SOFTWARE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190205113
    Abstract: An embodiment method for retiring a dynamically updatable function includes receiving, by a collector-thread, a registration of the function, wherein the registration indicates to the collector-thread addresses of memory locations for counters that count a number of calls currently being made to a previous version of the function by a plurality of execution threads; reading, by the collector-thread, values of the counters; and when the values of all the counters are zero, deleting, by the collector-thread, the function from a storage medium on a device previously executing the previous version of the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Marcus Theodore Chernenko Karpoff, Jose Nelson Amaral, Kai-Ting Amy Wang, Brice Adam Dobry