SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENSIONS AND INHERITANCE FOR UNITS OF INFORMATION MANAGEABLE BY A HARDWARE/SOFTWARE INTERFACE SYSTEM

• Main Authors: THOMPSON, J. PATRICK, CELIS, PEDRO, ACHARYA, SRINIVASMURTHY P, TEREK, F. SONER, SHAKIB, DARREN A, DEMIROSKI, BEKIM, WHITNEY, ROBERT T, AGARWAL, SAMEET, CAMERON, KIM, NORI, ANIL K, CAMPBELL, DAVID G, SMITH, WALTER R, BALLOU, NATHANIEL H, SPIRO, PETER M, RAMAN, BALAN SETHU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 20.01.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

By modeling real-world application objects with complex structures, behaviors, and operations described by a schema which is enforced by the hardware/software interface system, various embodiments of the present invention provide rich sub-typing functionality (3602, 3604, 3606, 6322, 3624, 3626, 364...