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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. 28, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul James Taysom, Provo, UT (US);
Assignee:
Novell, Inc., Provo, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707103 ; 707-8 ; 395672 ; 395673 ; 395676 ;
Abstract
A method and system for ensuring a preferred sequence for accessing a plurality of objects. The system includes a doubly linked list which contains a reference to each agent of a child object which is to be accessed before the object of the agent having the doubly linked list can be accessed. Each agent also includes a singly linked list which refers to each agent of a parent object. The singly linked list is used to clean up structures indicating dependencies after the dependencies no longer exist, and to inform a waiting agent that a child object has been accessed.