Patents by Inventor Matthew L. Harmsen

Matthew L. Harmsen 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: 5430858
    Abstract: A computer employs an operating system to perform a RAM conserving method that includes allocating a first portion of RAM for use as a RAM disk. The method comprises the steps of: storing an executable procedure comprising a plurality of sequentially executable code segments in the RAM disk, with code segments comprising the procedure stored at non-sequential addresses within the RAM disk and maintaining a file of RAM disk addresses where the sequential code segments are stored. The procedure then allocates a second portion of RAM as a procedure execution space and, in preparing to execute an executable procedure, stores in the procedure execution space, RAM disk addresses of code segments in the order they will execute during the executable procedure. The operating system then executes the executable procedure by employing the RAM disk code segment addresses in the executable space to access sequentially code segments from the RAM disk as required during execution of the executable procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Greeley, Matthew L. Harmsen