US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus to trace and visualize data movement" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,446, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus to trace and visualize data movement" was invented by Arthur Chun-Yin Leung (Kanata, Canada), Ahmed E. Hassan (Kanata, Canada), Boyuan Chen (Kanata, Canada) and Kenneth Chong Yin Tan (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for identifying performance bottlenecks in computer programs by tracking data accesses. In embodiments of the present disclosure, trace points are inserted at accessor functions of a computer program to record accesses to data structures of the computer program. The ...