Method and system for naming and binding objects

Details Method and system for naming and binding objects Method and system for naming and binding objects

2006-07-03

2008-10-21

Ho, Andy (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Dynamic linking, late binding

C719S330000, C719S332000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07441253

ABSTRACT:
A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In preferred embodiments a moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the linked source data. A binding method is provided that returns an instance of an interface through which the linked source data can be accessed. In a preferred embodiment, the moniker object provides other methods including a reducing method that returns a more efficient representation of the moniker object; equality and hash methods for comparing moniker objects; and inverse, common prefix, and relative-path-to methods for comparing and locating moniker objects from other moniker objects. Several implementations of a moniker object are provided. Each implementation is a moniker class and has a class identifier that identifies code to manage the moniker class.

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