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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:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2001
John Crupi, Bethesda, MD (US);
Deepak Alur, Fremont, CA (US);
Daniel Malks, Arlington, VA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for developing enterprise applications using design patterns. Over time, different types of enterprise applications have been developed and implemented by various software developers for different purposes. The present invention determines the purpose of the software that is needed by the developer and obtains a design pattern to solve the problem that is in accord with the best practices and patterns derived from these implementations. In turn a developer can rely on the present invention as a tool to develop and implement applications in a three-tier or multi-tier computer architecture.