Patents by Inventor Walker B. Carroll

Walker B. Carroll 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).

  • System and method using hardware buffers for processing microcode trace data
    Patent number: 7353429
    Abstract: Debugging microcode is facilitated by a hardware assist that takes over from the microcode the basic management of handling the data for a trace entry, thereby reducing the load on the microcode to a single micro-instruction per trace operation and thereby permitting more trace points to be included in the microcode shipped to the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Walker B. Carroll, Douglas J. Joseph, Gabriel M. Tarr