Patents by Inventor Michael Sylvester Thelen

Michael Sylvester Thelen 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: 6557167
    Abstract: An apparatus and method allow analyzing the performance of a computer program. The computer program is initially executed according to a predefined set of program execution conditions. As the computer program executes, information for each code segment is logged. Using the logged performance data, a graphical representation of the executed computer program is constructed. A user can then formulate ad hoc queries to analyze any desired performance parameters for the computer program by replaying how the computer program ran using the graphical representation of the executed computer program. The present invention thus allows a user to detect via queries complex performance bottlenecks that are caused by interactions between multiple code segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Sylvester Thelen