Patents by Inventor Ryan Patrick Grimm

Ryan Patrick Grimm 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).

  • Patent number: 9734078
    Abstract: A method for resetting of memory locks in a transactional memory system. The method includes a processor setting at least one new memory lock during execution of a transaction that acquires access to a region of memory. The new memory lock indicates that the transaction and its associated thread have exclusive temporary access to the memory region. The method further includes determining if a first in first out (FIFO) memory lock register is full of memory locks and, in response to the FIFO memory lock register being full, a memory lock is removed from a tail position of the FIFO memory lock register. The removed memory lock is reset to return to a transactional memory state and the new memory lock is added to a head position in the FIFO memory lock register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Fontenot, Ryan Patrick Grimm, Robert Cory Jennings, Jr., Joel Howard Schopp, Michael Thomas Strosaker
  • Patent number: 9524246
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for resetting of memory locks in a transactional memory system. The system includes a processor setting at least one new memory lock during execution of a transaction that acquires access to a region of memory. The new memory lock indicates that the transaction and its associated thread have exclusive temporary access to the memory region. The system further includes the processor determining if a first in first out (FIFO) memory lock register is full of memory locks and, in response to the FIFO memory lock register being full, a memory lock is removed from a tail position of the FIFO memory lock register. The removed memory lock is reset to return to a transactional memory state and the new memory lock is added to a head position in the FIFO memory lock register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan Fontenot, Ryan Patrick Grimm, Robert Cory Jennings, Jr., Joel Howard Schopp, Michael Thomas Strosaker
  • Publication number: 20160070650
    Abstract: A method for resetting of memory locks in a transactional memory system. The method includes a processor setting at least one new memory lock during execution of a transaction that acquires access to a region of memory. The new memory lock indicates that the transaction and its associated thread have exclusive temporary access to the memory region. The method further includes determining if a first in first out (FIFO) memory lock register is full of memory locks and, in response to the FIFO memory lock register being full, a memory lock is removed from a tail position of the FIFO memory lock register. The removed memory lock is reset to return to a transactional memory state and the new memory lock is added to a head position in the FIFO memory lock register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nathan FONTENOT, Ryan Patrick GRIMM, Robert Cory JENNINGS, JR., Joel Howard SCHOPP, Michael Thomas STROSAKER
  • Publication number: 20160070660
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for resetting of memory locks in a transactional memory system. The system includes a processor setting at least one new memory lock during execution of a transaction that acquires access to a region of memory. The new memory lock indicates that the transaction and its associated thread have exclusive temporary access to the memory region. The system further includes the processor determining if a first in first out (FIFO) memory lock register is full of memory locks and, in response to the FIFO memory lock register being full, a memory lock is removed from a tail position of the FIFO memory lock register. The removed memory lock is reset to return to a transactional memory state and the new memory lock is added to a head position in the FIFO memory lock register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: NATHAN FONTENOT, RYAN PATRICK GRIMM, ROBERT CORY JENNINGS, JR., JOEL HOWARD SCHOPP, MICHAEL THOMAS STROSAKER
  • Patent number: 8285950
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for managing an execution mode for a parallel processor is provided. A monitor identifies a first efficiency rate for a first contested resource of the parallel processor operating in a first operating mode. Responsive to identifying the first efficiency rate for the first contested resource, the monitor identifies whether the first efficiency rate for the contested resource of the parallel processor operating in the first operating mode exceeds a threshold. Responsive to identifying that the efficiency rate for the contested resource exceeds the threshold, an operation of the parallel processor is changed to a second operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nathan D. Fontenot, Ryan Patrick Grimm, Monty Christoph Poppe, Joel Howard Schopp, Michael Thomas Strosaker