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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:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen M Sanderson, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas J Davidson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Tandem Computers Incorporated, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345334 ; 345335 ;
Abstract
An system and method for creating applications having look and feel providing dynamically extensible languages for describing application look and feel. Engines are provided for executing programs written in the languages, and methods for extending the languages by creating new language operators are also provided. Methods for joining modules of functionality to new operators allow display of, and interaction with, functionality to be expressed in the extensible languages. The engines and languages permit language operators and functionality modules to be dynamically loaded.