Patents by Inventor Mark A. Alkins

Mark A. Alkins 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).

  • Automated identification of redundant method calls
    Patent number: 9996447
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide for collecting specified data each time that a call to a given method occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method, and the collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The process may further include storing the collected data at a selected location, and selecting a call threshold for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method, when the program is running. The collected data may be selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Alkins, Denny Pichardo, Martin J. C. Presler-Marshall, Hunter K. Presnall
  • Automated Identification of Redundant Method Calls
    Publication number: 20150089482
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide for collecting specified data each time that a call to a given method occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method, and the collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The process may further include storing the collected data at a selected location, and selecting a call threshold for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method, when the program is running The collected data may be selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Mark A. Alkins, Denny Pichardo, Martin J. C. Presler-Marshall, Hunter K. Presnall
  • Automated identification of redundant method calls
    Patent number: 8904360
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide for collecting specified data each time that a call to a given method occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method, and the collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The process may further include storing the collected data at a selected location, and selecting a call threshold for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method, when the program is running. The collected data may be selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Alkins, Denny Pichardo, Martin J. C. Presler-Marshall, Hunter K. Presnall
  • Automated Identification of Redundant Method Calls
    Publication number: 20140019944
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide for collecting specified data each time that a call to a given method occurs, wherein a given call to the given method is associated with a set of arguments comprising one or more particular argument values for the given method, and the collected data includes an element uniquely identifying each of the particular argument values. The process may further include storing the collected data at a selected location, and selecting a call threshold for the given method, wherein the call threshold comprises a specified number of occurrences of the given call to the given method, when the program is running. The collected data may be selectively analyzed at the storage location, to determine whether an occurrence of the given call to the given method has exceeded the call threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Alkins, Denny Pichardo, Martin J. C. Presler-Marshall, Hunter K. Presnall
  • Automatically detecting non-modifying transforms when profiling source code
    Patent number: 8291389
    Abstract: A code profiler can be digitally encoded in a storage medium that is configured to automatically detect an existence of non-modifying transforms within monitored programmatic code using hash codes of arguments of the monitored programmatic code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Alkins, Denny Pichardo, Martin J. C. Presler-Marshall, Hunter K. Presnall
  • AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING NON-MODIFYING TRANSFORMS WHEN PROFILING SOURCE CODE
    Publication number: 20100050162
    Abstract: A code profiler can be digitally encoded in a storage medium that is configured to automatically detect an existence of non-modifying transforms within monitored programmatic code using hash codes of arguments of the monitored programmatic code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: MARK A. ALKINS, DENNY PICHARDO, MARTIN J. C. PRESLER-MARSHALL, HUNTER K. PRESNALL