Inventor
POWELL MICHAEL L
US9 patents
Patents
9 patentsUS5787251AJul 28, 1998
Method and apparatus for subcontracts in distributed processing systems
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Object oriented system for executing application call by using plurality of client-side subcontract mechanism associated with corresponding plurality of server-side subcontract mechanism
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Non-supervisor mode cross address space dynamic linking
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Method and apparatus for determining the type of an object in a distributed object system
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Methods and apparatus for providing an extensible set of auxiliary services for objects in an object-oriented system
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System for determination of the equivalence of two objects without compromising then done by a third object nominated by one and accetped by the other
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Methods and apparatus for managing collections of objects
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US6412019B1Jun 25, 2002
Method and mechanism for invocation on objects with interface inheritance
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Method and system for type identification for multiple object interfaces in a distributed object environment
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