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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:
May. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Neil G Smithline, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher D Quenelle, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707206 ; 3642811 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for adding and deleting data in a plurality of heaps stored in memory, where the ordering of the data in the heaps is maintained across the heaps as the additions and deletions are performed. Not all entries in the heaps have a corresponding entry in all of the other heaps, but the ordering of the data in the heaps is in accordance with an order dependent list stored in memory. Such ordered heaps are useful for example, in a incremental linker software program.