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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1990
Michael P Priven, Marietta, GA (US);
Robert L Abraham, Marietta, GA (US);
Floyd W Shackelford, Buford, GA (US);
Richard E Moore, Marietta, GA (US);
Thomas P Moorman, Atlanta, GA (US);
April D Stiles, Atlanta, GA (US);
Jane E Schrock, Kennesaw, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an Object Oriented Programming System, a Communications Interface Packet (CIP) enables processing in either a remote system or in a batch environment. A CIP is an object in an Object Oriented Programming System, and like any other object, the CIP object contains data or attributes surrounded by or encapsulated by methods or actions for those data or attributes. Unique to a CIP, however, are attributes which contain an action, an object and parameters. An Application Programming Interface (API) method enables remote processing. An IPA method, which is the reverse of the API method, creates the CIP object which is to be executed in a remote or batch system through the application programming interface. After a CIP object has been created, it must be flattened or formatted prior to submission to the batch system or prior to sending the CIP object to a remote system. Flattening or formatting puts the CIP object into a flat sequential file known as a product data interface (PDIF) file for use by either the remote or batch system. The PDIF file includes three major sections known as the administrative header section, the data dictionary section, and the object data section.