Patents by Inventor William Francis Quinn

William Francis Quinn 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).

  • Embedded system having dynamically linked dynamic loader and method for linking dynamic loader shared libraries and application programs
    Patent number: 6052778
    Abstract: A method and means for enhancing an embedded system includes means for and steps of executing a boot routine; activating a ROM loader routine; initializing an I/O subsystem; activating an embedded OS; creating a dynamically linked embedded system loader task, and having the embedded OS map the Global Coerced Memory (GCM) and the Global Shared Memory (GSM) into its address space so that it can access shared libraries; loading each of a plurality of executable programs, and mapping the GCM and the GSM into each executable program's address space so it is able to access shared libraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lee Emison Hagy, Grama Kasturi Harish, James Darrell Heath, Deepak Anantarao Kulkarni, William Francis Quinn