International Business Machines Corporation

George B Leeman, Jr

Sidney L Hantler

Daniel Milch

Meir M Laker

Harry R Gail, Jr

Alexander Birman

H Richard Gail

A method of detecting deadlock in a multithreading program is provided. An invocation graph is constructed having a single root and a plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more functions written in code of the multithreading program. A resource graph is computed in accordance with one or more resource sets in effect at each node of the invocation graph. It is determined whether cycles exist between two or more nodes of the resource graph. A cycle is an indication of deadlock in the multithreading program.

Methods and apparatus for detecting deadlock in multithreading programs

Faults and errors are diagnosed from a repository of directed graphs. Subsets of all the possible questions and answers in the fault diagnosis process are encoded as directed graphs. Downloading subsets from a repository to a remote user substantially reduces the number of transmissions between the user and the repository.

Diagnosing faults and errors from a data repository using directed graphs

A very fast method for correcting the spelling of a word or phrase in a document proceeds in two steps: first applying a very fast approximate method for eliminating most candidate words from consideration (without computing the exact edit distance between the given word whose spelling is to be corrected and any candidate word), followed by a &ldquo;slow method&rdquo; which computes the exact edit distance between the word whose spelling is to be corrected and each of the few remaining candidate words. The combination results in a method that is almost as fast as the fast approximate method and as exact as the slow method.

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George B Leeman, Jr