Patents by Inventor Tycho G. Nightingale

Tycho G. Nightingale 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).

  • Method and apparatus for enabling optimistic program execution
    Patent number: 8065670
    Abstract: A system that reduces overly optimistic program execution. During operation, the system encounters a bounded-execution block while executing a program, wherein the bounded execution block includes a primary path and a secondary path. Next, the system executes the bounded execution block. After executing the bounded execution block, the system determines whether executing instructions on the primary path is preferable to executing instructions on the secondary path based on information gathered while executing the bounded-execution block. If not, the system dynamically modifies the instructions of the bounded-execution block so that during subsequent passes through the bounded-execution block, the instructions on the secondary path are executed instead of the instructions on the primary path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tycho G. Nightingale, Wayne Mesard
  • Method and apparatus for enabling optimistic program execution
    Publication number: 20080082804
    Abstract: A system that reduces overly optimistic program execution. During operation, the system encounters a bounded-execution block while executing a program, wherein the bounded execution block includes a primary path and a secondary path. Next, the system executes the bounded execution block. After executing the bounded execution block, the system determines whether executing instructions on the primary path is preferable to executing instructions on the secondary path based on information gathered while executing the bounded-execution block. If not, the system dynamically modifies the instructions of the bounded-execution block so that during subsequent passes through the bounded-execution block, the instructions on the secondary path are executed instead of the instructions on the primary path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Tycho G. Nightingale, Wayne Mesard