Patent · US Expired

System of objects and program components

US6745389B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Sony Service Centre (Europe) N.V. · BE

Inventors

Tom Hostyn · Stuttgart, DE
Michel Feret · Brussels, BE
Magdalena Wasowska · Kessel-Lo, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 30, 2000
Grant date	Jun 1, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 30, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/449
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention provides a system of objects and program components wherein an object accesses different associated program components for different implementations of a corresponding function of the object.The system comprises:a first object having one or more functions;a first program component having one or more functions, the first program component being dynamically linked to the first object at a run-time of the first object; and wherein the first object access the first program component using a function call which may result in the access to a second program component having one or more functions.

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