ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,319, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Scalable execution tracing for large program codebases" was invented by Christian Rudolf Hoermann (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Indications of a plurality of events whose occurrence is detected in a particular execution of a program are obtained. One or more partitions of a trace object corresponding to the execution are constructed, including a first partition corresponding to a first subset of the events. The first partition comprises a header portion which includes a compressed representation of one or more event chains, and a da...