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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2007
Raymond Walter Ellis, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Theodore Pendleton, San Diego, CA (US);
Charles Merritt Baylis, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Raymond Walter Ellis, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Theodore Pendleton, San Diego, CA (US);
Charles Merritt Baylis, Cincinnati, OH (US);
PEER Intellectual Property, Inc., Kitchener, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A system, computer program product and method for automated tool management in a multi-protocol environment. A user may issue a message in accordance with an object-oriented interapplication communication protocol to a corresponding application interface unit. The message may be a request to perform a particular action on a selected tool. The content of the message may be extracted by the corresponding application interface unit which may comprise data required by the requested action and a pointer to the object representing the tool. The application interface unit may invoke a method of the object pointed to by the pointers in the message. A value may then be procured by an equipment model where the value may be associated with particular information requested in the message about a tool or a notification informing the user that an event occurred. The equipment model may transfer the value to the appropriate user.