Object mechanism and method for coupling together processes to define a desired processing environment in an object oriented framework
US6195791A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 29, 1998 |
| Grant date | Feb 27, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 29, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/289
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In an object oriented computer system, a framework mechanism defines an infrastructure for allowing a user to couple processes in the framework together in any suitable way to define a desired process flow. A user first defines a static object structure that corresponds to the specific process flow from one process to the next. The processes in the framework may be flexibly coupled in any suitable order, so a process does not have knowledge of its predecessor or successor processes. Thus, at run-time, a process determines the next step in the process flow from the static object structure. Once a process determines its subsequent process, a client may then create the next process and invoke methods on one or more objects corresponding to the newly-created process. Each process thus determines at run-time the next step in the process flow from the static object structure that the user statically defined to configure the process flow, which defines the desired processing environment.
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