Patents by Inventor Alex C. Turner

Alex C. Turner 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).

  • Dynamic binding directed by static types
    Patent number: 9075667
    Abstract: A static type, called “dynamic”, is introduced into a statically bound programming language. An expression or subexpression that is defined as a static type called “dynamic” in the source code of a program written in the statically bound programming language, is bound based on its runtime type instead of on its compile time type. Binding can be performed based on a mixture of compile time and runtime types that are based on the specification of types of expressions in source code. This type of binding is called hybrid binding. Operations are bound using the runtime type of constituent expressions (i.e., the runtime type of a receiver, an argument, or an operand) typed as dynamic and the compile time type of static constituents. If any constituent expression of an operation is dynamic, binding occurs at runtime instead of at compile time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Mads Torgersen, Anders Hejlsberg, James J. Hugunin, Matthew J. Warren, Neal Gafter, Lucian Jules Wischik, Robert Eric Lippert, Samuel Y. Ng, Christopher Joseph Burrows, Alex C. Turner
  • DYNAMIC BINDING DIRECTED BY STATIC TYPES
    Publication number: 20100299660
    Abstract: A static type, called “dynamic”, is introduced into a statically bound programming language. An expression or subexpression that is defined as a static type called “dynamic” in the source code of a program written in the statically bound programming language, is bound based on its runtime type instead of on its compile time type. Binding can be performed based on a mixture of compile time and runtime types that are based on the specification of types of expressions in source code. This type of binding is called hybrid binding. Operations are bound using the runtime type of constituent expressions (i.e., the runtime type of a receiver, an argument, or an operand) typed as dynamic and the compile time type of static constituents. If any constituent expression of an operation is dynamic, binding occurs at runtime instead of at compile time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mads Torgersen, Anders Hejlsberg, James J. Hugunin, Matthew J. Warren, Neal Gafter, Lucian Jules Wischik, Robert Eric Lippert, Samuel Y. Ng, Christopher Joseph Burrows, Alex C. Turner