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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:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2007
Applicants:
Brian Chess, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sean Fay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ayee Kannan Goundan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventors:
Brian Chess, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sean Fay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ayee Kannan Goundan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify a path in target source code. Constraints associated with the path are extracted. The constraints are converted to a Boolean expression. The Boolean expression is processed with a Boolean satisfiability engine to identify either a feasible path or an infeasible path. A feasible path is statically analyzed, while an infeasible path is not statically analyzed.