Patent 7305662 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for tracing an instrumented program, including triggering a probe in the instrumented program, obtaining an original instruction associated with the probe, loading the original instruction into a scratch space, and executing the original instruction in the scratch space using the thread, wherein executing the original instruction results in placing the instrumented program in a state equivalent to natively executing the original instruction.