Patents by Inventor Soren C. Spies

Soren C. Spies 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).

  • Publication number: 20220229758
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques for measuring operational performance metrics, and presenting these metrics through an application programming interface (API) for developers to access for optimizing their applications. Exemplary metrics can include central processing unit or graphics processing unit time, foreground/background time, networking bytes (per application), location activity, display average picture luminance, cellular networking condition, peak memory, number of logical writes, launch and resume time, frame rates, and hang time. Regional markers can also be used to measure specific metrics for in application tasks. The techniques provide multiple user interfaces to help developers recognize the important metrics to optimize the performance of their applications. The data can be normalized over various different devices having different battery size, screen size, and processing requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Amit K. Vyas, Abhinav Pathak, Anthony R. Newnam, Phillip J. Azar, Ashish Patro, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Daniel J. Etter, Conor J. O'Reilly, Andreas C. Bergen, Nehal Bhandari, Jeffrey S. Lale, Andrew P. Sakai, Terrence R. Long, Soren C. Spies
  • Patent number: 11243597
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed performing a power logging in a computer system at a sub-process level. An exemplary method includes an operating system of the computer system determining process information indicative of which sub-portions of one or more processes are running on the computer system at different points in time, as well as may determining power information for the computer system at different points in time. The operating system may the create, from the process information and the power information, a power log indicative of power usage of sub-portions of processes at a plurality of points in time. The power logging may extend to both core and non-core resources of the system. For non-core resources, the power usage may be estimated in some cases based on the type of non-core resource being called as well as parameters passed to the non-core resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Abhinav Pathak, Albert S. Liu, Amit K. Vyas, Soren C. Spies, Matthew C. Widmann, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Anand Subramanian, Anthony J. Chivetta, Brian K. Tearse-Doyle
  • Patent number: 11036610
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques for measuring operational performance metrics, and presenting these metrics through an application programming interface (API) for developers to access for optimizing their applications. Exemplary metrics can include central processing unit or graphics processing unit time, foreground/background time, networking bytes (per application), location activity, display average picture luminance, cellular networking condition, peak memory, number of logical writes, launch and resume time, frame rates, and hang time. Regional markers can also be used to measure specific metrics for in application tasks. The techniques provide multiple user interfaces to help developers recognize the important metrics to optimize the performance of their applications. The data can be normalized over various different devices having different battery size, screen size, and processing requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Amit K. Vyas, Abhinav Pathak, Anthony R. Newnam, Phillip J. Azar, Ashish Patro, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Daniel J. Etter, Conor J. O'Reilly, Andreas C. Bergen, Nehal Bhandari, Jeffrey S. Lale, Andrew P. Sakai, Terrence R. Long, Soren C. Spies
  • Publication number: 20200379878
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques for measuring operational performance metrics, and presenting these metrics through an application programming interface (API) for developers to access for optimizing their applications. Exemplary metrics can include central processing unit or graphics processing unit time, foreground/background time, networking bytes (per application), location activity, display average picture luminance, cellular networking condition, peak memory, number of logical writes, launch and resume time, frame rates, and hang time. Regional markers can also be used to measure specific metrics for in application tasks. The techniques provide multiple user interfaces to help developers recognize the important metrics to optimize the performance of their applications. The data can be normalized over various different devices having different battery size, screen size, and processing requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Amit K. Vyas, Abhinav Pathak, Anthony R. Newnam, Phillip J. Azar, Ashish Patro, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Daniel J. Etter, Conor J. O'Reilly, Andreas C. Bergen, Nehal Bhandari, Jeffrey S. Lale, Andrew P. Sakai, Terrence R. Long, Soren C. Spies
  • Publication number: 20190369705
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed performing a power logging in a computer system at a sub-process level. An exemplary method includes an operating system of the computer system determining process information indicative of which sub-portions of one or more processes are running on the computer system at different points in time, as well as may determining power information for the computer system at different points in time. The operating system may the create, from the process information and the power information, a power log indicative of power usage of sub-portions of processes at a plurality of points in time. The power logging may extend to both core and non-core resources of the system. For non-core resources, the power usage may be estimated in some cases based on the type of non-core resource being called as well as parameters passed to the non-core resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Abhinav Pathak, Albert S. Liu, Amit K. Vyas, Soren C. Spies, Matthew C. Widmann, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Anand Subramanian, Anthony J. Chivetta, Brian K. Tearse-Doyle