Patents by Inventor Matthew Joseph Mitchell, Jr.

Matthew Joseph Mitchell, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 4048671
    Abstract: Apparatus for signalling the occurrence of a match between an address that is supplied to a control store and an address that is to be watched for in a data processing system that executes several instruction streams concurrently. The apparatus signals the occurrence of a storage accessing operation at a location that is uniquely identified only by a virtual address that is longer than the actual address used in accessing the store. Means is provided for comparing the actual address used in accessing the store with the corresponding portion of the complete address, and means is provided for recording the location of an address to be watched for in a particular frame of the store and for signalling a match that occurs in such a frame. The apparatus is useful for testing the operation of the data processing system by relating a recurring malfunction of the system to the execution of an instruction at the address that is watched for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1977
    Assignee: IBM Corporation
    Inventors: Robert William Callahan, Paul Eugene Kauffman, Matthew Joseph Mitchell, Jr.