Patents by Inventor Deepa Viswanathan

Deepa Viswanathan 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).

  • Method and apparatus for dispatch table construction
    Patent number: 6643711
    Abstract: Apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing dispatch tables. In one embodiment of the present invention, the decision to allocate a new dispatch table entry is sensitive to the accessibility of a class. A dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described in which the entries for a Vtable are determined such that conflicts between accessibility and class hierarchy are avoided. In particular, a dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described which takes a method's accessibility and package status into consideration in determining the proper overriding semantics and table building techniques. The dispatch table may have more than one distinct entry for a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Bracha, Deepa Viswanathan
  • Method and apparatus for dispatch table construction
    Publication number: 20020107996
    Abstract: Apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing dispatch tables. In one embodiment of the present invention, the decision to allocate a new dispatch table entry is sensitive to the accessibility of a class. A dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described in which the entries for a Vtable are determined such that conflicts between accessibility and class hierarchy are avoided. In particular, a dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described which takes a method's accessibility and package status into consideration in determining the proper overriding semantics and table building techniques. The dispatch table may have more than one distinct entry for a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Bracha, Deepa Viswanathan
  • Method and apparatus for dispatch table construction
    Patent number: 6393491
    Abstract: Apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for constructing dispatch tables. In one embodiment of the present invention, the decision to allocate a new dispatch table entry is sensitive to the accessibility of a class. A dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described in which the entries for a Vtable are determined such that conflicts between accessibility and class hierarchy are avoided. In particular, a dispatch table and dispatch table construction process is described which takes a method's accessibility and package status into consideration in determining the proper overriding semantics and table building techniques. The dispatch table may have more than one distinct entry for a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gilad Bracha, Deepa Viswanathan