Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra – Remote procedure call
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-01
2009-02-17
An, Meng-Ai (Department: 2194)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra
Remote procedure call
C719S328000, C717S130000, C717S158000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07493630
ABSTRACT:
A computer readable medium contains a data structure, which, in some embodiments, is an interface wrapper. The interface wrapper stores information about the interface such as a first data field that contains a reference to instrumentation, a second data field that contains data which represents a reference to an interface of a software program, and a third data field which contains data representing an identity of the unit of software. When a client unit calls a member function of the interface, the interface wrapper intercepts the call and invokes the instrumentation.
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An Meng-Ai
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
Microsoft Corporation
Wu Qing-Yuan
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