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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:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2000
Applicants:
Vamsi Krishna Sangavarapu, Bangalore, IN;
Maneesh Soni, Bangalore, IN;
Suparna Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Vamsi Krishna Sangavarapu, Bangalore, IN;
Maneesh Soni, Bangalore, IN;
Suparna Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 944 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, a computer-implemented apparatus, and a computer program product for identifying a global breakpoint for debugging computer software are disclosed. The method includes the step of representing the global breakpoint in software code using an identifier of an executable file and an offset in the executable file. Preferably, the file identifier is an inode of a Unix or Unix-like operating system.