Patents by Inventor Walter E. Tuvell, Jr.

Walter E. Tuvell, Jr. 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).

  • Virtual execution of programs on a multiprocessor system
    Patent number: 4849877
    Abstract: A multiprocessor system automatically responding to a request for executing a new program to establish an extended process that spans a plurality of processors each having resources required for the execution of the new program. Initially, the extended process comprises an user process that is requesting the execution of the new program. Stub processes are created as required to gain access to the object code file of the new program, to allocate a processor to execute the new program, and to initialize the allocated processor for execution for the new program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignees: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas P. Bishop, Robert W. Fish, James S. Peterson, Walter E. Tuvell, Jr.