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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:
Jan. 01, 2002
Filed:
May. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Soren T. Soe, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for implementing type-safe, heterogeneous object-oriented property lists. A library of classes and template classes implementing a heterogeneous property list is defined, wherein each object of the property list includes a property name and an associated property value of a selected property type. Instantiation of objects having equal property names and unequal property types is prevented with a constructor, and template functions are provided each of which accesses the objects of the property list according to a type of data passed to the function.