Patents by Inventor Shiva Shankar P

Shiva Shankar P 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).

  • Providing a wrapper around native synchronization objects
    Patent number: 8028296
    Abstract: A facility for managing a synchronization mechanism that supports initialization, acquisition, release, and deletion operations is described. When a thread seeks to perform the acquisition operation, the facility permits performance of the acquisition operation only if the initialization operation has been performed more recently than the deletion operation. When a thread seeks to perform the deletion operation, the facility waits until any threads that are seeking to perform the acquisition operation or have performed the acquisition operation more recently than the release operation have performed the release operation before deleting the synchronization mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Shiva Shankar P
  • PROVIDING A WRAPPER AROUND NATIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OBJECTS
    Publication number: 20070234368
    Abstract: A facility for managing a synchronization mechanism that supports initialization, acquisition, release, and deletion operations is described. When a thread seeks to perform the acquisition operation, the facility permits performance of the acquisition operation only if the initialization operation has been performed more recently than the deletion operation. When a thread seeks to perform the deletion operation, the facility waits until any threads that are seeking to perform the acquisition operation or have performed the acquisition operation more recently than the release operation have performed the release operation before deleting the synchronization mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Shiva Shankar P