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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brigitte Bernadette Birze, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Computer Associates Think, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method of providing operating system utilities for use by an applications program for a number of different operating systems. For each utility, a base class is created. The base class is defined in a header file and declares a static member function for creating the utility as an object and also declares virtual member functions for using the utility as an object (FIG. ). The base classes and their static member functions are generic to all operating systems. A programmer includes the header file and invokes the member functions, which are implemented in a library of system-specific derived classes (FIGS. and ).