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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:
May. 08, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2003
Applicant:
Kay A. Neuenhofen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kay A. Neuenhofen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One or more fingerprints may be utilized in each class in order to allow for faster subtype checking. A subclass fingerprint may be utilized to track the superclasses of a class, and an interface fingerprint may be utilized to track the locally declared interfaces of the class and any interfaces which it inherits. This allows for subtype checking that is extremely fast and efficient by utilizing comparison and other logical operations during the checking.