Systems and methods for extensions and inheritance for units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system

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 by extending Items (and Item types) usin...

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Main Authors CELIS, PEDRO, THOMPSON, PATRICK J, SHAKIB, DARREN A, DEMIROSKI, BEKIM, TEREK, SONER F, 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, ACHARYA, SRINIVAMURTHY P
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 16.04.2005
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary: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 by extending Items (and Item types) using "Extensions" which provide additional data structures (Properties, Relationships, etc.) to already existing Items type structures. Extensions are strongly typed instances that cannot exist independently and must be attached to an Item or a Nested Element. Extensions are also intended to address "multi-typing" issues by enabling the overlap of type instances (e.g., a Document may be a "legal document" as well a "secure document").
Bibliography:Application Number: TW200493122603