Patents by Inventor Peter A Hallam

Peter A Hallam 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 system for program editing and debugging in a common language runtime environment
    Patent number: 7516441
    Abstract: A system and method of providing edit and continue support in a software program debugging environment. “Edit and continue” support allows a user (e.g., programmer and/or developer) to update the code and/or data structure(s) of an executing program while it is running. After the user has finished editing their code and resumes execution, an integrated development environment (IDE) propagates the edit(s) into a common language runtime (CLR) environment before continuing. Therefore, from the CLR environment's perspective, an edit is a block of intermediate language code (IL) and/or metadata that is inserted into a running process. Moreover, The IDE can facilitate: determining “legality” of an edit; building the edit; sending the edit to the CLR environment; and/or, facilitating the CLR environment switch execution to the edited code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer A Hamilton, Michael M Magruder, James H Hogg, William G Evans, Vance P Morrison, Lawrence B Sullivan, Sean E Trowbridge, Jason L Zander, Ian H Carmichael, Patrick H Dussud, John L Hamby, John J Rivard, Li Zhang, Mario Chenier, Douglas Rosen, Steven J Steiner, Peter A Hallam, Brian R Crawford, James S Miller, Sam Spencer, Habib Heydarian