Patents by Inventor Philip K. Royal

Philip K. Royal 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 for selectively enabling subset of embedded event-making instructions and selecting types and items of event-based data to be collected per enabled instruction
    Patent number: 5446878
    Abstract: An application event collector which is embodied in computer software that collects event-based data. The collector follows a process which includes the steps of: (a) storing definitions of event-marking instructions that have been embedded in the software application, each instruction being capable, when enabled, of collecting event-based data, and the definitions identifying the software application in which the instructions have been embedded and the type of data collected by the instructions; (b) selecting, prior to or during execution of the application, a subset of the event-marking instructions and enabling those instructions; and (c) detecting the enabled event-marking instructions, during execution of the software application, and collecting the data specified by the enabled instructions. The application is divided into layers, each of which may have event-marking instructions embedded in it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Philip K. Royal