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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:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Geoffrey Alexander Cohen, Durham, NC (US);
David Louis Kaminsky, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jonathan Michael Seeber, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709247 ; 709203 ; 709231 ; 709232 ; 709235 ; 709236 ; 709300 ; 709302 ; 709303 ; 709304 ; 709305 ; 709246 ; 707103 ; 712220 ; 395705 ; 395707 ;
Abstract
A method and system for reducing the amount of information sent across a socket when invoking an application using a remote method invocation. The present invention involves creating a list of the classes and fields contained within the application that is to be distributed and determining which of the fields are actually required for the remote method invocation under analysis. Any fields that are in the method but are not necessary for the invocation are marked with place holders.