Patents by Inventor Paul Richard Henerlau

Paul Richard Henerlau 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).

  • Dynamic system relocation based on availability of system memory
    Patent number: 6442660
    Abstract: In a computer system having an embedded application, a method of dynamic system relocation, including creating a ROM version of an embedded application which is executable from ROM; creating a RAM version of the embedded application which is executable from RAM; comparing the RAM version of the embedded application to the ROM version of the embedded application to identify differences between the RAM version and the ROM version; storing the differences between the ROM version and the RAM version in a relocation table; storing the ROM version of the embedded application and the relocation table in ROM; on system initialization; conditionally copying the ROM version of the embedded application into RAM; modifying the copied ROM version now in RAM as a function of the differences stored in the relocation table; and executing the embedded application from the RAM version of the embedded application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Richard Henerlau, Thomas Daniel Davis, Jr., Jack Van Oosterhout