Patents by Inventor William Earl Sumner

William Earl Sumner 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 for selectively and automatically modifying the source code of a computer program
    Publication number: 20020184615
    Abstract: A system and method for automatically and selectively modifying the source code of a computer program. A parser is provided for scanning the source code portion to recognize select syntax structures of the source code. A code modification portion is included in the parser which inserts instrumentation code at select locations of the source code based on the modification code. The instrumented source code can be compiled and executed using test loads to exercise different portions of the source code and obtain statistics such as frequency of global variable accesses, function calls, frequency of use of multiple code paths, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: William Earl Sumner, Moon Ki Cho