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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001

Filed:

Dec. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Daniel J. O'Leary, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robin Jeffries, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products centrally manage references to objects recently employed by a user operating in a software development environment. After transmission of collection messages to plural applications, a receiver centrally managing object references receives an information block of object references. A writer of the centrally managing object references system writes the information blocks into memory. A reader further reads previously written information blocks to inform plural applications of what objects were previously referenced.


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