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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:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick C Beard, Danville, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395683 ;
Abstract
When an object-oriented program calls a native SOM method, a data structure is created for handling exceptions. If an exception occurs during the execution of the SOM method, data values relating to the exception are placed in the data structure, and it is labeled to identify its type. This label is used to select a class within the object-oriented program having properties similar to the exception. An instance of this class is allocated, and the exception data is copied into the object, which can then be used to generate an exception within the object-oriented program.