Patents Examined by Alvin E. Orerley
  • Method for object-oriented programming using dynamic interfaces
    Patent number: 6016392
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for allocating, linking and using blocks of memory to represent a data object in an object-oriented programming environment, particularly COM programming environments. The invention eliminates the conventional viable pointers, reference counters, controlling unknown pointers and other infrastructure overhead from the data objects. This information is instead allocated on a temporary basis only while an object is in use, in object and interface wrappers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventor: David A Jordan