Method and system for handling data

US7367029B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Warren Keith Edwards · San Francisco, US
• Mark W. Newman · San Francisco, US
• Trevor Smith · San Francisco, US
• Jana Zdislava Sedivy · Palo Alto, US
• Karen Marcelo · San Francisco, US
• Shahram Izadi · Cambridge, GB
• Jason Hong · Pittsburgh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 1, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 29, 2008
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/543
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Handling data at one of a plurality of components, wherein the plurality of components includes at least a sink component and a source component. The source component transfers data to the sink component, and the sink component accesses an obtained data type handler object to invoke an interface implemented by the handler object. The invoked type handler interface includes source-specific instructions that are executed by the sink component regardless of whether the data is a format that the sink natively understands.