Patents by Inventor Raymond J. Hookway

Raymond J. Hookway 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 for performing binary translation method and apparatus for performing binary translation
    Patent number: 6502237
    Abstract: A computer system for executing a binary image conversion system which converts instructions from a instruction set of a first, non native computer system to a second, different, native computer system, includes an run-time system which in response to a non-native image of an application program written for a non-native instruction set provides an native instruction or a native instruction routine. The run-time system collects profile data in response to execution of the native instructions to determine execution characteristics of the non-native instruction. Thereafter, the non-native instructions and the profile statistics are fed to a binary translator operating in a background mode and which is responsive to the profile data generated by the run-time system to form a translated native image. The run-time system and the binary translator are under the control of a server process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P.
    Inventors: John S. Yates, Steven Tony Tye, Raymond J. Hookway
  • Method and apparatus for performing binary translation
    Patent number: 5930509
    Abstract: A computer system for executing a binary image conversion system which converts instructions from a instruction set of a first, non native computer system to a second, different, native computer system, includes an run-time system which in response to a non-native image of an application program written for a non-native instruction set provides an native instruction or a native instruction routine. The run-time system collects profile data in response to execution of the native instructions to determine execution characteristics of the non-native instruction. Thereafter, the non-native instructions and the profile statistics are fed to a binary translator operating in a background mode and which is responsive to the profile data generated by the run-time system to form a translated native image. The run-time system and the binary translator are under the control of a server process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Yates, Steven Tony Tye, Raymond J. Hookway
  • Method and apparatus for forming a translation unit
    Patent number: 5842017
    Abstract: A computer system for executing a binary image conversion system which converts instructions from a instruction set of a first, non native computer system to a second, different, native computer system, includes an run-time system which in response to a non-native image of an application program written for a non-native instruction set provides an native instruction or a native instruction routine. The run-time system collects profile data in response to execution of the native instructions to determine execution characteristics of the non-native instruction. Thereafter, the non-native instructions and the profile statistics are fed to a binary translator operating in a background mode and which is responsive to the profile data generated by the run-time system to form a translated native image. The run-time system and the binary translator are under the control of a server process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond J. Hookway, John S. Yates, Steven Tony Tye