Patents by Inventor Eric Theodora

Eric Theodora 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).

  • Methods of storing and depackaging attributes of an object
    Patent number: 6446078
    Abstract: A method of storing in a packet attributes associated with an object corresponding to a class that is part of an inheritance tree, each class in the inheritance tree including a storage method including an index parameter, includes the following steps: calling storage methods of parent classes, if any, incrementing the index parameter, placing a first free address in the packet into the packet at an address determined by the index parameter, and copying attributes of a current class into the packet from the first free address with an identifier of the current class. The storage method calls the storage method of the corresponding class with a null value of the index parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Eric Theodora, Bruno Aidan