Patents by Inventor Mike Stall

Mike Stall 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).

  • Call stack parsing in multiple runtime environments
    Patent number: 8291381
    Abstract: Where a process in a computing system comprises mixed code, having different sections of code managed by different runtimes, the call stack used to coordinate function invocations may comprise call stack frames created according to multiple calling conventions. In order to analyze this call stack in a stack walk or unwinding, a debugger may be configured to request the runtimes managing the process to claim a particular call stack frame, and to request the runtime that claims it to parse the contents of the frame, or to utilize call stack analysis techniques if the call stack frame was created by unmanaged code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Lai, Mike Stall, Jon Langdon, Jan Stranik, Drew Bliss
  • Call stack parsing in multiple runtime environments
    Publication number: 20090089764
    Abstract: Where a process in a computing system comprises mixed code, having different sections of code managed by different runtimes, the call stack used to coordinate function invocations may comprise call stack frames created according to multiple calling conventions. In order to analyze this call stack in a stack walk or unwinding, a debugger may be configured to request the runtimes managing the process to claim a particular call stack frame, and to request the runtime that claims it to parse the contents of the frame, or to utilize call stack analysis techniques if the call stack frame was created by unmanaged code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Lai, Mike Stall, Jon Langdon, Jan Stranik, Andrew Bliss