Patents by Inventor Simon Charles Edward Rowland

Simon Charles Edward Rowland 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).

  • Distributed just-in-time compilation
    Patent number: 8539464
    Abstract: A method of performing distributed just-in-time compilation includes sending a first request message from a client platform to a dedicated compilation server requesting just-in-time compilation of a bytecode sequence generated from a set of code for a source program executing on the client platform; compiling the bytecode sequence at the compilation server into a set of machine code instructions executable by the client platform; storing the set of machine code instructions in a repository managed by the dedicated compilation server; sending a notification message indicating that the set of machine code instructions are available from the dedicated compilation server to the client platform; sending a second request message from the client platform to the dedicated compilation server requesting the set of machine code instructions; and accessing the repository to send the set of machine code instructions from the dedicated compilation server to the client platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian O Partridge, Adam J Pilkington, David S Renshaw, Simon Charles Edward Rowland
  • DISTRIBUTED JUST-IN-TIME COMPILATION
    Publication number: 20100115501
    Abstract: A method of performing distributed just-in-time compilation includes sending a first request message from a client platform to a dedicated compilation server requesting just-in-time compilation of a bytecode sequence generated from a set of code for a source program executing on the client platform; compiling the bytecode sequence at the compilation server into a set of machine code instructions executable by the client platform; storing the set of machine code instructions in a repository managed by the dedicated compilation server; sending a notification message indicating that the set of machine code instructions are available from the dedicated compilation server to the client platform; sending a second request message from the client platform to the dedicated compilation server requesting the set of machine code instructions; and accessing the repository to send the set of machine code instructions from the dedicated compilation server to the client platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ian O. Partridge, Adam J. Pilkington, David S. Renshaw, Simon Charles Edward Rowland