Patents by Inventor Ning Thomas Wong

Ning Thomas Wong 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).

  • Managing variable assignments in a program
    Patent number: 8555266
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product to manage variable assignments in a program. The process identifies a set of variable assignments that is live on a portion of paths to form a set of identified variable assignments. Each of the set of identified variable assignments assign a value to at least one variable of a set of variables. The process determines a set of program points at which the set of identified variable assignments is live on all paths. The process also moves the set of identified variable assignments to the set of program points in response to determining that the set of identified variable assignments is movable to the set of program points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Reid T. Copeland, Mark Graham Stoodley, Vijay Sundaresan, Ning Thomas Wong
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS IN A PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20090125893
    Abstract: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing variable assignments in a program. The process identifies a set of variable assignments that is live on a portion of paths to form a set of identified variable assignments. Each of the set of identified variable assignments assign a value to at least one variable of a set of variables. The process determines a set of program points at which the set of identified variable assignments is live on all paths. The process also moves the set of identified variable assignments to the set of program points in response to determining that the set of identified variable assignments is movable to the set of program points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Reid T. Copeland, Mark Graham Stoodley, Vijay Sundaresan, Ning Thomas Wong