405 results about "Object-orientation" patented technology

A computer data processing system including a central processing unit configured with a novel integrated computer control software system for the management of data objects including dynamic and automatic organization, linking, finding, cross-referencing, viewing and retrieval of multiple objects regardless of nature or source. The inventive system provides underlying component architecture having an object-oriented database structure and a metadata database structure which is unique in storing only one instance of each object while linking the object to multiple collections and domains by unique metadata links for the grouping into and retrieval from any of the collections. The system employs configurable, extensible attribute/properties of data objects in metadata format, and a truly user-friendly configurable interface that facilitates faster, more unified, comprehensive, useful and meaningful information management. Additional features include a sticky path object hierarchy viewing system, key phrase linking, viewing by reference, and drag-and-drop relationship link creation.

Systems and methods for configuring and evaluating policies that direct processing of one or more data streams are described. A configuration interface is described for allowing users to specify object oriented policies. These object oriented policies may allow any data structures to be applied with respect to a payload of a received packet stream, including any portions of HTTP traffic. A configuration interface may also allow the user to control the order in which policies and policy groups are executed, in addition to specifying actions to be taken if one or more policies are undefined. Systems and methods for processing the policies may allow efficient processing of object-oriented policies by applying potentially complex data structures to unstructured data streams. A device may also interpret and process a number of flow control commands and policy group invocation statements to determine an order of execution among a number of policies and policy groups. These policy configurations and processing may allow configuration and processing of complex network behaviors relating to load balancing, VPNs, SSL offloading, content switching, application security, acceleration, and caching.

A system and method lets a user create or import ontologies and create databases and related application software. These databases can be specially tuned to suit a particular need, and each comes with the same error-detection rules to keep the data clean. Such databases may be searched based on meaning, rather than on words-that-begin-with-something. And multiple databases, if generated from the same basic ontology can communicate with each other without any additional effort. Ontology management and generation tools enable enterprises to create databases that use ontologies to improve data integration, maintainability, quality, and flexibility. Only the relevant aspects of the ontology are targeted, extracting out a sub-model that has the power of the full ontology restricted to objects of interest for the application domain. To increase performance and add desired database characteristics, this sub-model is translated into a database system. Java-based object-oriented and relational application program interfaces (APIs) are then generated from this translation, providing application developers with an API that exactly reflects the entity types and relations (classes and methods) that are represented by the database. This generation approach essentially turns the ontology into a set of integrated and efficient databases.

Disclosed is a system for mapping objects defined in a design model, such as an object oriented design model defined using a design language such as the Universal Modeling Language (UML), to a data model accessible to an application development tool. A design model is provided that includes at least two models. A first model includes a first class and a second model includes a second class. The first class and second class have the same name, and the first class and second class have at least one different attribute and method. The first model, the first class, and attributes and methods therein are mapped to a first data structure that indicates that the first class is included with the first model. The second model, the second class, and attributes and methods therein are mapped to a second data structure that indicates that the second class is included with the second model. In this way, the first class and the second class are distinguished according to their model in the data structures.

In a system for remotely monitoring networked devices and appliances, email messages are sent across networks, the email messages containing configuration, status or other information. For flexibility, it is desirable to quickly and easily change the message type designation, and to easily determine a data structure definition appropriate for storing the received information. To achieve this goal, the message type designation of a given message's information may be defined within the message itself, and extracted at the receiving end before the information is analyzed or stored according to a data structure definition determined by the message type designation. A large number of devices can thus communicate configuration, status and/or other types of information in a variety of message types. A method stores information concerning a remotely monitored device, the information being contained in a message that includes a message type designation. The method involves extracting the message type designation from the message, determining a data structure definition based on the message type designation, reading data elements from the message, and storing the data elements into a database according to the data structure definition. The method may be implemented in object-oriented programming, in a software module including a data retriever class and a database interface class.

Methods and an apparatus for instrumenting object oriented software that do not require modification to existing source code or to executable files, nor do they require modification to any existing sequences of object resident instructions. Methods include the class interceptor, doppelganger and method hijacking software instrumentation techniques. The class interceptor technique intercepts and monitors the paths of execution associated with methods inherited by a target class. The class doppelganger technique intercepts and monitors the paths of execution entering a target class. The method hijacking technique creates and adds instrumented methods directly to a target class.

A computer-implemented method in which report program language is converted to object-oriented source code, such as Java, using the report program language compiler. The object-oriented source code emulates the behaviour of the report program language, such as VARPG. Applications written in RPG are converted to Java and therefore can run on every platform for which a Java virtual machine exists. RPG programmers now have the ability to write internet applications. Java applications and applets can be written in RPG and existing RPG applications can be converted to Java applets.

A record layout in a legacy application is defined by the record definition in the source code of the language in which the application was written. For each record in a legacy application, the layout of the record is saved in a language-neutral and architecture neutral format in preparation for a runtime invocation. During runtime, for each record, the legacy application can send architecture-specific binary information as it exists in memory on the legacy computer to a component runtime environment that will construct a compatible object-oriented instance of a class to manipulate the information. Once the information is manipulated, the updated information can be represented to the original legacy application in an architecture-specific binary record layout.

A smart passive reference to an object oriented object provides control over creation and deletion of the object it references. A reference count is incremented when an active reference to an object is created, and is decremented when an active reference to the object is deleted. The smart passive reference allows suspending the activity of a thread until no threads have active references to the object. In addition, the smart passive reference can be used to invalidate the smart passive references in other threads, thereby allowing a thread to obtain exclusive access to an object. The smart passive reference also provides an interface to cause the managed object to be deleted when the reference count goes to zero.

An apparatus for automatically generating an object-oriented language program which comprises a class definition storing unit, a parsing unit, a generation pattern description storing unit and a program generating unit. The class definition unit describes and stores the class definition. The parsing unit obtains structure information by parsing a class definition input from the class definition unit. The generation pattern description storing unit stores the generation pattern description for structuring the information obtained from the class definition. The program generating unit automatically generates a new object-oriented program from structure information of the parsing unit and the generation pattern. Additionally, both the structure information and the information possessed by a class included in a pattern description in a program to be generated, are verified. As a result, it can be verified whether or not the generated program includes a definition which conflicts with an existing program immediately after the generation of the program, without waiting for the compiling of the generated program.

A method for transforming a procedural program having procedural language code into an object-oriented distributed software program is provided. A procedural program is transformed into intermediate client-server code. The intermediate client-server code is partitioned into an N-tier application program.

A method for scanning using an MRI, including: providing a display, MRI, object to be scanned in said MRI, and a GUI; connecting said display with said MRI; displaying said GUI on said display; displaying at at least one first region of said GUI, graphic visualization options relating to said object and scanning of object, said visualizations are selected from a group consisting of type of object, object orientation, preferred scanning region of object, preferred scanning quality of object, preferred scanning orientation, preferred scanning type, and a combination thereof; selecting said object characteristics and scanning characteristics via said GUI; scanning said object by means of said MRI in accordance with said determined characteristics; and optionally, selecting a presentation mode of said scanning from a group consisting of single image display, multi-image display, thumbnail display, comparative display and a combination thereof, and displaying the same on said display.

An object oriented framework for source code processing provides an infrastructure that embodies the steps necessary to process source code and a mechanism to extend the framework to fit a particular scenario for processing source code. Certain core functions are provided by the framework, which interact with extensible functions provided by the framework user. The architecture of the framework allows a developer to select the native processing tool of their choice, and provides an infrastructure for using that processing tool with other platforms (e.g., targets, etc.) The extensible functions allow the processing tools of a new platform to be easily incorporated into the framework. The framework thus allows a programming environment with development on multiple platforms that targets multiple platforms, which may be easily customized to include new platforms and new processing tools.

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accessing a hierarchical database. An objects framework models the database as one or more objects. An Internet-enabled generic application program accesses the database via the objects framework. The present invention introduces an Internet-enabled generic application program for accessing hierarchical databases, such as an IMS TM database, by modeling the database into an objects framework and then accessing the database via the objects framework using standard tools, such as the DL/I TM query language for the IMS TM database. The Internet-enabled generic application program dynamically builds a DL/I TM query string based on web browser inputs. The generic application program loads the objects framework to instantiate IMS TM objects and dynamically constructs DL/I TM calls to access the IMS TM database. The generic application program can be used in a number of different environments, such as: (1) DL/I TM batch processing and (2) on-line transactions including both IMS TM and CICS TM transactions. Moreover, the generic application program and objects framework can be executed in any MVS address space, including IMS TM and non-IMS TM address spaces, such as web server address spaces. With this invention, customers can continue to access their business data in IMS TM databases using the latest Internet technology, without relying on legacy application programs and without developing new application programs. Thus, the present invention offers improved IMS TM application programming productivity by supporting IMS TM business objects and data objects, by eliminating complicated DL/I TM programming, and by supporting use of object-oriented programming tools.

An object oriented mechanism and method allow allocating Java array objects of unknown size at compile time to a method's invocation stack if the array's size is less than a predetermined threshold value. If the array object could typically be allocated to the invocation stack if it were of a known size at compile time, run-time code is generated that examines the actual size of the array object at run-time and that allocates the array object to the invocation stack if the size is less than a predetermined threshold value. In this manner Java array objects that have an unknown size at compile time may still be allocated to an invocation stack at run-time if the size of the object is sufficiently small.

A signal transmitting and receiving system to track the position and orientation of limb segments in order to provide feedback information for the control of the limb movement. The user will generally be seated in a wheelchair that provides a structure upon which orthogonal and/or non-orthogonally oriented coils can be mounted and energized selectively so as to create variously oriented magnetic fields. Multiple wireless sensors injected into the limb detect the local field strength and send information telemetrically to a central controller. The controller extracts information about the position and orientation of each limb segment by combining signals from various sensors according to calibration information and optimal filtering methods for extracting information from multiple nonlinear sensors in mechanically constrained systems.

The invention discloses a plug-and-play method of power distribution terminals based on an IEC61850 standard. The method comprises the steps of putting forward a model mapping method between a power distribution automation master station and the power distribution terminals by adopting an idea of IEC61850 object orientation and layering distribution, on the basis of an open IP (Internet Protocol) communication network and on the premise of self-description of the power distribution terminals, constructing a power distribution automation terminal plug-and-play system, and achieving plug-and-play of the power distribution terminals. The plug-and-play method of the power distribution terminals based on the IEC61850 standard achieves automatic discovery and automatic identification of a power distribution automation master station system to the power distribution terminals, reduces a large amount of work in installation and debugging processes of the power distribution automation terminals, provides a model basis for mutual identification between the power distribution automation terminals, and promotes rapid development of intelligent distributed FA (Feed Automation).