Inventor · Ramona, CA, US

Dean R. E. Long

20Patents
9h-index
10Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 29, 1996 → Mar 30, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6349312B1 Method and apparatus for performing pre-allocation of memory to avoid triggering garbage collection operations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 65 Expired
US5946489A Apparatus and method for cross-compiling source code Physics 59 Expired
US7086053B2 Method and apparatus for enabling threads to reach a consistent state without explicit thread suspension Physics 39 Expired
US5835958A Method and apparatus for dynamically sizing non-contiguous runtime stacks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US6463521B1 Opcode numbering for meta-data encoding Physics 24 Expired
US6587955B1 Real time synchronization in multi-threaded computer systems Physics 16 Expired
US5991763A Method and apparatus for embedding concatenated data files into object files during runtime in a virtual file system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6886157B2 Method and apparatus for creating efficient native methods that extend a bytecode interpreter Physics 11 Expired
US6691307B2 Interpreter optimization for native endianness Physics 9 Expired
US6951018B2 Method and apparatus for efficiently tracking monitors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US6910209B2 Clean thread termination Physics 8 Expired
US7472383B2 System and method for providing exceptional flow control in protected code through memory layers Physics 7 Active
US6836782B1 Method and apparatus for implementing modular garbage collectors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6711576B1 Method and apparatus for implementing compact type signatures in a virtual machine environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US7055133B2 Method and apparatus for eliminating C recursion from a Java programming language bytecode interpreter Physics 4 Expired
US7647586B2 System and method for providing exceptional flow control in protected code through watchpoints Physics 4 Expired
US7003521B2 Method and apparatus for locking objects using shared locks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US9507613B2 Methods and apparatus for dynamically preloading classes Physics 2 Active
US6915508B2 Method and apparatus for eliminating C recursion from a Java™ bytecode interpreter Physics 0 Expired
US8756681B2 Hybrid system implementing distinct and co-existing application execution environments and methods for implementing the same Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.