Patents by Inventor Neil G. Smithline

Neil G. Smithline 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).

  • Memory allocation maintaining ordering across multiple heaps
    Patent number: 5787447
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adding and deleting data in a plurality of heaps stored in memory, where the ordering of the data in the heaps is maintained across the heaps as the additions and deletions are performed. Not all entries in the heaps have a corresponding entry in all of the other heaps, but the ordering of the data in the heaps is in accordance with an order dependent list stored in memory. Such ordered heaps are useful for example, in a incremental linker software program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Smithline, Christopher D. Quenelle