Patents by Inventor Robert Todd Dimpsey

Robert Todd Dimpsey 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).

  • System and method for monitoring software locks
    Patent number: 7051026
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring software locks is presented. Metric data collection is invoked only when thin lock contention arises in a computer system's application layer. Instrumentation in a computer system's middleware layer tracks time-based metric information such as a waiting time for an application to acquire a lock. Instrumentation tracks garbage collection events and removes garbage collection time durations from time-based metric data as to not distort time-based metric data. Instrumentation also tracks quantity-based events such as the number of applications that request a particular lock. An instrumentation user may retrieve metric data for computer system performance analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Francis Berry, Robert Todd Dimpsey, Benjamin Joseph Hoflich, Frank Eliot Levine, Enio Manuel Pineda
  • System and method for monitoring software locks
    Publication number: 20040024797
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring software locks is presented. Metric data collection is invoked only when thin lock contention arises in a computer system's application layer. Instrumentation in a computer system's middleware layer tracks time-based metric information such as a waiting time for an application to acquire a lock. Instrumentation tracks garbage collection events and removes garbage collection time durations from time-based metric data as to not distort time-based metric data. Instrumentation also tracks quantity-based events such as the number of applications that request a particular lock. An instrumentation user may retrieve metric data for computer system performance analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Francis Berry, Robert Todd Dimpsey, Benjamin Joseph Hoflich, Frank Eliot Levine, Enio Manuel Pineda