Patents by Inventor Paul Vigna

Paul Vigna 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).

  • Method and apparatus to insert special instruction
    Publication number: 20070294576
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to insert special instruction. At least one of the illustrative embodiments is a method comprising converting a first representation of a computer program to a second representation, and inserting into the second representation a special instruction not needed to implement functionality in the first representation. The special instruction gives duplicate copies of the computer program executed in different processors an opportunity to service external asynchronous interrupts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Vigna, Shasank Chavan