Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Beyer Thomas & Weaver LLP
  • Inheritable thread-local storage
    Patent number: 6820261
    Abstract: In a threading mechanism, a system and method for providing automatic value inheritance when a parent thread creates a child thread. Upon thread creation, the system iterates over all of the inheritable thread-local values associated with a parent thread and initializes a child's values of these inheritable thread-local values, based on an appropriate child value method. The child's values may be a copy of the parent's values, or a predetermined function of the parent's values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua J. Bloch