Patents by Inventor Matthew Stephen Spencer

Matthew Stephen Spencer 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: 6240499
    Abstract: A method and system, for improving programs which access a memory array, which accomplish their objects via data-processing equipment programmed to do the following: detect a requested memory operation; determine if the requested operation relates to a preexisting memory array; and execute a dynamic memory management module in a fashion dependent upon whether the requested operation relates to a preexisting memory array. When the requested memory operation relates to a preexisting memory array, the dynamic memory management module does the following: identifies the array element upon which the requested operation is to be performed; determines whether the array element upon which the requested operation is to be performed is a bona fide array element; and, if it is determined that the array element is bona fide, allocates memory for the bona fide array element if such has not been done previously, and performs the requested operation upon the bona fide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Stephen Spencer
  • Patent number: 6154822
    Abstract: A method and system, for improving programs which access a memory array, which accomplish their objects via data-processing equipment programmed to do the following: detect a requested memory operation; determine if the requested operation relates to a preexisting memory array; and execute a dynamic memory management module in a fashion dependent upon whether the requested operation relates to a preexisting memory array. When the requested memory operation relates to a preexisting memory array, the dynamic memory management module does the following: identifies the array element upon which the requested operation is to be performed; determines whether the array element upon which the requested operation is to be performed is a bona fide array element; and, if it is determined that the array element is bona fide, allocates memory for the bona fide array element if such has not been done previously, and performs the requested operation upon the bona fide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Stephen Spencer
  • Patent number: 5995960
    Abstract: A method and system for increasing the efficiency of database utilizing programs. The method and system accomplish their objects via the use of data-processing equipment programmed to do at least the following: extract information related to an execution of a database utilizing program from a computer memory; process the extracted information related to the execution of the database utilizing program; and write the processed information into a field of a record associated with the database utilizing program scenario. Additional objects are achieved by further programming the data-processing system to do the following: accept user input; recall the processed information in the field of the record associated with the database utilizing program scenario; modify the recalled information; and execute a scenario of the database utilizing program based upon the recalled processed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporaiton
    Inventors: Terry Allen Lochner, Matthew Stephen Spencer