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Remote procedure calling with marshaling and unmarshaling of arbitrary non-conformant pointer sizes

US6298391A · kind A · utility

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5References

19Claims

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Terry Kennedy · Darmstadt, DE
Christopher Gustav Ewbank · Seattle, US
Dietmar Gaertner · Ober-Ramstadt, DE
Mario C. Goertzel · Kirkland, US
Ryszard K. Kott · Redmond, US
Nathaniel S. Brown · Seattle, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 13, 1998
Grant date	Oct 2, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/547
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A remote procedure call marshaling architecture provides remote procedure call interoperability between computers having arbitrary native data format pointer sizes not conforming to an on-wire multicanonical data representation of the remote procedure calls. The architecture includes an interface description language compiler having a code path generic to effecting marshaling of data structures containing non-conformant pointers. When compiled to run on a computing platform having a native, non-conformant pointer size, the code path is automatically configured to effect marshaling of data structure containing pointers of the computing platform's native pointer size.

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