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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. 05, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Brian Monday, Rochester, MN (US);
Bradley Scott Rubin, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for changing a component's mode based on its environmental context is disclosed. A component role fulfillment mechanism, as part of a component, changes the mode of a component based on its environmental context. The environmental context is defined by connections made by an assembler between components. Each component can support a variety of modes, but the component role fulfillment mechanism chooses one mode based on the environment and configures the component to fulfill only one mode.