Patents by Inventor Theresa Xu

Theresa Xu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Version-insensitive serialization and deserialization of program objects
    Publication number: 20040167937
    Abstract: A method for serializing and deserializing program objects that is versioning sensitive. A program object is serialized into a persistent object by saving only those data fields that contain non-default data. The persistent object is deserialized to be used by a deserializing application by first creating a blank program object of the same version as the deserializing application and then populating it with the non-default data stored in the persistent object. The version of the deserializing application need not be the same as the version of the serializing application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eric A. Sirois, Kit Man Cheung, Peter W. Kohlmann, Gordon D. Lipford, Mark Mezofenyi, Belal A. Tassi, Theresa Xu