Patents by Inventor Meredith Smith Vaughan

Meredith Smith Vaughan 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).

  • Systems, methods and computer program products for generating and validating user defined object classes in an object oriented programming environment after build time
    Patent number: 5732263
    Abstract: User-created object classes may be generated after build-time without requiring modification to and recompiling of the program code. Every class within an object oriented programming environment is assigned a unique class identifier. Every class within a particular hierarchy is assigned a selector identifier. The exemplary class comprises a registration table having a vendor class portion and a user class portion. Classes defined at build-time are registered in the vendor portion of the registration table. User-created object classes are assigned selector identifiers having values of existing classes. These selector identifiers, along with the respective name of the user-created object class, are registered in the user class portion of the registration table. The instantiation of objects from user-created object classes is handled by searching the user class portion of the registration table prior to the vendor class portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: George Lee Havens, Jay Douglas Stouffer, Helen Robie Seabold, Meredith Smith Vaughan