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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1998
Gregory K. Slaughter, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Saulpaugh, San Jose, CA (US);
Sunil K. Bopardikar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zi-Hui Li, Mt. View, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing memory functionality to object-oriented client software components of a computer system having a CPU using a first set of memory classes, each class of the first set being platform-independent; a second set of memory classes, each class of the second set being a subclass of a class of the first set and being platform-dependent; and performing client component memory functions by accessing only objects of classes of the first set. Descriptions of the classes and methods are provided, enabling platform-independent device drivers to be implemented.