Object Technology Licensing Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Taligent, Inc.

Bill Gibbons

Debra L Orton

Keith A Rollin

Roger Robert Webster

Peter J McInerney

Alexander Quincey Musil

Carlos Jose Herrera

Manish Ramesh Shah

Manish Dixit

Dale D Jin

Denise Dandong Xu

Methods and systems are provided for adapting software applications for download and execution on a variety of different mobile devices which employ different Application Execution Environments. An Application Download Protocol for transferring applications to mobile devices is also provided. Mobile devices can be matched with compatible applications according to functionality required by the applications and functionality provided by the mobile devices. Applications submitted by developers can be automatically matched to application categories, thus facilitating user selection of applications. Data used by applications running on mobile devices can be remotely managed by application developers, allowing developers to remotely control the type and presentation of data on mobile devices without the need for data management servlets to be provided by the developers.

Mobile download system

An object-oriented view system controls the display of screen graphics for a plurality of application programs, each of which generates graphical information for display in a window assigned to it. The view system has a system window manager which is common to all of the application programs and which defines application window areas on the display screen and corresponding application window storage areas in the display screen buffer. Each application program instantiates a view system object from class information in the computer operating system. Each view system object includes a view object with program code that directly stores screen display information generated by the application into the screen buffer. This arrangement allows the application programs to avoid the conventional 'bottleneck' that develops when all of the screen display information must be stored in the screen buffer by the common system window manager.

Oriented view system having a common window manager for defining

A human oriented object programming system provides an interactive and dynamic process for the incremental building of computer programs which facilitates the development of complex computer programs such as operating systems and large applications with graphic user interfaces (GUIs). The program is modeled as a collection of units called components. A component represents a single compilable language element such as a class or a function. The three major functionality are the database, the compiler and the build mechanism. The database stores the components and properties. The compiler, along with compiling the source code of a property, is responsible for calculating the dependencies associated with a component. The build mechanism uses properties of components along with the compiler generated dependencies to correctly and efficiently sequence the compilation of components during a build process.

Method and apparatus for building a software program using dependencies

A view system is disclosed which provides support polymorphic initialization and finalization of objects. This mechanism is used by the view system to support virtual method invocation at construction/destruction time for objects that require the needed behavior. The C++ language does not support the invocation of virtual methods from within the constructor/destructor of a given object. The view system provides a mechanism whereby an initialization method is invoked after the object construction is completed, but before any methods are invoked on the constructed object. A similar mechanism is used to invoke a virtual finalization method before the object destruction is started. This mechanism is not view system-specific, but is provided and used by the view system to support such behavior.

Object-oriented view-system for displaying information in a windowing

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