Patents by Inventor Reid E. Tatge

Reid E. Tatge 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 of returning a data structure from a callee function to a caller function for the C programming language
    Patent number: 5293630
    Abstract: A method of using a computer to execute a computer program, in which a caller portion of the program calls a callee function that returns a data structure. Before the callee function is called, the computer is used to determine whether the structure is to be used, and if so, an address to which the structure is to be returned is determined. The caller passes this address to the called function. The callee executes, and if the structure is to be used, the callee copies the structure to the predetermined address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Reid E. Tatge, Alan L. Davis