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Self-describing object providing dynamic manipulation of heterogeneous data values and semantic identity between memory and transmission representations

  • US 5,754,849 A
  • Filed: 01/30/1996
  • Issued: 05/19/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer readable memory having a plurality of contiguous storage locations and storing an object including:

  • at least one data element each data element comprising;

    a) in at least one first storage location a type code defining a type of a data for the data element, the type being one of a group comprising;

    a first type of data element having a fixed length, the first type of data associated with first type code;

    a second type of data element having a variable length but not including other data elements, the second type of data associated with a second type code; and

    ,a third type of data element having a variable length and capable of including other data elements, the third type of data associated with a third type code; and

    ,b) in at least one second storage location contiguous with the at least one first storage location, a data member selected from a group comprising;

    at least one data value of the data element;

    or,at least one reference to another data element.

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