Patents by Inventor Rita Shiao-yuan Wu

Rita Shiao-yuan Wu 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).

  • Patent number: 5809302
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for enabling an application to pass a structure containing a pointer member to an external entity, wherein the application represents a computer program executing in a computer system, and the computer program is written in a computer programming language that does not support pointers. The application declares a variable V, a structure type having a member P, and a variable M of the structure type. The application invokes a function written in a computer programming language that supports pointers. A reference to the variable V is passed to the function. The function, when executed, obtains and returns an address of the variable V. The application sets the member P in the variable M equal to the address of the variable V. The application then passes the variable M to an external entity. In this manner, the present invention enables a structure having a pointer embedded therein to be passed to the external entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: I-Shin Andy Wang, Frederick Thomas Sharp, Rita Shiao-yuan Wu, John Shek-Luen Ng, Kuo-Wei Hwang, David Y. Chen