Patents by Inventor Sharon Lea Smith

Sharon Lea Smith 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).

  • Computer method and apparatus for safe instrumentation of reverse executable program modules
    Publication number: 20030014737
    Abstract: Computer method and apparatus allows instrumentation of program modules while maintaining exception-handling unwinding context. In the case of instrumenting procedure prologues, the invention preserves the calling context. A sanitized copy of the prologue and rewind instructions to reverse the effects of duplicate prologue instructions are employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Applicant: Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P.
    Inventors: Sharon Lea Smith, David Paul Hunter, Robert Cohn, David W. Goodwin, Paul Geoffrey Lowney
  • Computer method and apparatus for safe instrumentation of reverse executable program modules
    Patent number: 6470493
    Abstract: Computer method and apparatus allows instrumentation of program modules while maintaining exception-handling unwinding context. In the case of instrumenting procedure prologues, the invention preserves the calling context. A sanitized copy of the prologue and rewind instructions to reverse the effects of duplicate prologue instructions are employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P.
    Inventors: Sharon Lea Smith, David Paul Hunter, Robert Cohn, David W. Goodwin, Paul Geoffrey Lowney