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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Raymond Paul Pekowski, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395704 ; 395710 ; 707103 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for tracing events occurring upon entries to or exits from a dynamic link library (DLL) without accessing or modifying the source code of the DLL is disclosed. The method includes generating a shadow dynamic link library which intercepts calls from a calling application program executable.