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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:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Larry Wayne Loen, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
An apparatus, program product, and method of processing a request to create an immutable object reuse an existing immutable object in appropriate circumstances to represent redundant data without the necessity for creating an additional immutable object. Prior to creating a new object in response to a request to create an immutable object, a determination is made as to whether a matching immutable object already exists that has the same contents as the requested immutable object. If so, creation of a new object is inhibited, and a reference to the matching immutable object is returned in response to the request.