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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Rajendra S. Pingte, Foster City, CA (US);
Srinath Krishnaswamy, Fremont, CA (US);
Rajendra S. Pingte, Foster City, CA (US);
Srinath Krishnaswamy, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer automatically identifies multiple occurrences of an abstract data type that is embedded within an object of metadata of another abstract data type (hereinafter 'top-level' abstract data type), e.g. by recursively visiting each element of the top-level abstract data type. Then the computer automatically generates, for the top-level abstract data type, a tap-level description that contains a description of each embedded abstract data type. At several locations in the top-level description that correspond to occurrences of a given embedded abstract data type in the top-level abstract data type, the computer automatically inserts offsets that identify a common position where the single description of that given embedded abstract data type is present in the tap-level description. Use of multiple offsets that identify a common position of an embedded description reduces space. The space was otherwise occupied by multiple embedded descriptions in prior art's top-level descriptions.