The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1999
Jeffrey D. Aman, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Rajesh R. Bordawekar, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Michael Wayne Brown, Georgetown, TX (US);
Donna Ngar-Ting Dillenberger, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David B. Emmes, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Donald William Schmidt, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Mark Alvin Sehorne, Round Rock, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a virtual machine environment, the invention enables creation of a long running, reusable, virtual machine are disclosed. The environment includes a shared heap where requisite runtime code to bring the virtual machine into a 'ready' mode are loaded, linked, verified, initialized and compiled. Subsequent virtual machines are started and jointly use the shared heap. Applications create their objects in 'private heaps' that are exclusively reserved for the respective applications. At the end of execution of an application, each private heap is reinitialized. Static initializers are run in a persistent area of each private heap. This persistent area is reset to its initial values in between execution of applications. This obviates the need to terminate the virtual machine.