Patents by Inventor Richard Glen Fowles

Richard Glen Fowles 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 program product for avoiding cache congestion by offsetting addresses while allocating memory
    Patent number: 7237084
    Abstract: A method of allocating memory operates to avoid overlapping hot spots in cache that can ordinarily cause cache thrashing. This method includes steps of determining a spacer size, reserving a spacer block of memory from a memory pool, and allocating memory at a location following the spacer block. In an alternative embodiment, the spacer size is determined randomly in a range of allowable spacer size. In other alternative embodiments, spacers are allocated based upon size of a previously allocated memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Douglas Vincent Larson, Richard Glen Fowles, Blaine Douglas Gaither, Benjamin Daniel Osecky