Patents by Inventor Peter R. Gregory

Peter R. Gregory 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).

  • Protocol acknowledgment between homogeneous system
    Patent number: 6182246
    Abstract: A testing and validating software program on a host computer is provided having a graphical user interface program, an engine communicating with a target device and responding to command from the graphical user interface, a plurality of test suites having at least one test for testing and validating at least one component of an operating system, and a protocol acknowledgment software package conducive to use with the target device, wherein the protocol acknowledgment software package uses an operating system-generated event handle as a member field of a protocol for releasing an execution thread which is waiting for an acknowledgment message from the target device, and wherein the event handle is placed in a header portion of an acknowledgment message packet and is sent back in the acknowledgment message, and wherein a receiving thread unblocks any send threads of execution which are waiting for the event handle in the acknowledgment message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: Bsquare Corporation
    Inventors: Peter R. Gregory, Ian Sample, Shawn Michael Lucas, Jie H. Ding, David Matthew Boyce, James Floyd Walters