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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. 11, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian Freyburger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for separate compilation of templates by creating an executable program from source programs having templates that include a source file having a template definition and one or more source files having a template instantiation, and by providing a compiled object file having the template definition as input to compilation processes for creating object files having the template instantiation upon object files are provided to a linker process for creating the executable program. In this way, compilation of the source programs may occur with the template definition occurring in only one source program.