Patents by Inventor Stephen Roderick Hines

Stephen Roderick Hines 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: 9575737
    Abstract: An application executing on a computing device may invoke a function call of a first function. The computing device may support a bundled application library of functions and a native library of functions. It may be determined that code for executing the first function exists in both the bundled application library and the native library, and the application may execute the first function using the code in the native library. While the application continues execution on the computing device, the application may invoke a function call of a second function. It may be determined that, of the bundled application library and the native library, the code for executing the second function exists in the bundled application library. The application may execute the second function using the code in the bundled application library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Patent number: 9348625
    Abstract: An application executing on a computing device may invoke a function call of a first function. The computing device may support a bundled application library of functions and a native library of functions. It may be determined that code for executing the first function exists in both the bundled application library and the native library, and the application may execute the first function using the code in the native library. While the application continues execution on the computing device, the application may invoke a function call of a second function. It may be determined that, of the bundled application library and the native library, the code for executing the second function exists in the bundled application library. The application may execute the second function using the code in the bundled application library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Publication number: 20150339140
    Abstract: An application executing on a computing device may invoke a function call of a first function. The computing device may support a bundled application library of functions and a native library of functions. It may be determined that code for executing the first function exists in both the bundled application library and the native library, and the application may execute the first function using the code in the native library. While the application continues execution on the computing device, the application may invoke a function call of a second function. It may be determined that, of the bundled application library and the native library, the code for executing the second function exists in the bundled application library. The application may execute the second function using the code in the bundled application library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Patent number: 9058193
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing compatibility of applications with multiple versions of an operating system are provided. The method may comprise receiving, by a device, a request to perform a function-call of an application that references features of a first version of an operating system. The method also includes determining whether a version of the operating system and a system library on the device supports the function-call of the application so as to be able to perform dynamic compilation of code in the system library for the function-call at run-time, and based on the determination, accessing a compatibility library associated with the application that includes pre-compiled code for execution by a given device having a given version of the operating system other than the first version of the operating system. The method also includes at run-time, performing the function-call using corresponding pre-compiled code from the compatibility library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Publication number: 20150135170
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing compatibility of applications with multiple versions of an operating system are provided. The method may comprise receiving, by a device, a request to perform a function-call of an application that references features of a first version of an operating system. The method also includes determining whether a version of the operating system and a system library on the device supports the function-call of the application so as to be able to perform dynamic compilation of code in the system library for the function-call at run-time, and based on the determination, accessing a compatibility library associated with the application that includes pre-compiled code for execution by a given device having a given version of the operating system other than the first version of the operating system. The method also includes at run-time, performing the function-call using corresponding pre-compiled code from the compatibility library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Murray, Stephen Roderick Hines, Rudy Jason Sams
  • Patent number: 8219756
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for lookahead instruction fetching for processors. The systems and methods may include an L1 instruction cache, where the L1 instruction cache may include a plurality of lines of data, where each line of data may include one or more instructions. The systems and methods may also include a tagless hit instruction cache, where the tagless hit instruction cache may store a subset of the lines of data in the L1 instruction cache, where instructions in the lines of data stored in the tagless hit instruction cache may be stored with metadata indicative of whether a next instruction is guaranteed to reside in the tagless hit instruction cache, where an instruction fetcher may be arranged to have direct access to the L1 instruction cache and the tagless hit instruction cache, and where the tagless hit instruction cache may be arranged to have direct access to the L1 instruction cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Florida State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: David Benjamin Whalley, Gary Scott Tyson, Stephen Roderick Hines
  • Publication number: 20090132766
    Abstract: Systems and methods may be provided for lookahead instruction fetching for processors. The systems and methods may include an L1 instruction cache, where the L1 instruction cache may include a plurality of lines of data, where each line of data may include one or more instructions. The systems and methods may also include a tagless hit instruction cache, where the tagless hit instruction cache may store a subset of the lines of data in the L1 instruction cache, where instructions in the lines of data stored in the tagless hit instruction cache may be stored with metadata indicative of whether a next instruction is guaranteed to reside in the tagless hit instruction cache, where an instruction fetcher may be arranged to have direct access to the L1 instruction cache and the tagless hit instruction cache, and where the tagless hit instruction cache may be arranged to have direct access to the L1 instruction cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: David Benjamin Whalley, Gary Scott Tyson, Stephen Roderick Hines