The Mathworks, Inc.

John Micco

Peter Webb

Charles Gary Nylander

Marc Ullman

Barry Simon

Brett W Baker

William M McKeeman

Michael Karr

James Stewart

Eugene F Mcgoldrick

Peter Hartwell Webb

Charles G Nylander

The present invention is directed toward automatically integrating a late bound program language into an external environment. The external environment may be an early bound environment, a late bound environment or some combination thereof. Associated with the late bound program environment is a modular execution engine and an interface mechanism, wherein the interface mechanism is capable of expressing late bound semantics in a format compatible with the external environment.

Calling of late bound functions from an external program environment

A self-contained virtual file system is disclosed for deploying and distributing an application and/or software component. Executable files relating to the application are included in a distributable composite file. The composite file and a user front end application are deployed and distributed to an application user where the application is executed. An application provider can tag the composite file with the version information and other useful meta-data of the files for the application. The format of the composite file may support the storage of any kind of file types and associated meta-data. The composite file may contain the hierarchical directory structure of the files for the application so that the hierarchical directory structure is installed in the application user's electronic device.

Deploying and distributing of applications and software components

Methods and apparatus for using description information about a function to translate a call to the function in a first language into a call to a corresponding function in a second language. The methods include create description information from a definition of a function associated with a first language that enables translation of a call to the function in the first language into a call to a corresponding function in a second language without requiring processing of the definition of the function. In one aspect, the methods include providing a description file of items, each item including description information about a function associated with a first language, and using the file of description items to translate a first program file from the first language into a second language.

Function call translation

A tool for automatically generating Component Object Model (COM) components for use in COM-compliant application from functions developed in a MATLAB programming environment. The tool receives as an input a component name and a selection of source code files which define functions. The tool processes the source code files to produce as an output a component having the selected component name. The component provides a binary interface through which application programs perform run-time function calls on the functions.

System and method for creation of software components

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John Micco