Appeal No. 2001-1095
Application No. 08/622,806
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a method and apparatus for communicating
between independent software modules. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method of communicating among independent software modules
comprising:
loading a parent process;
generating, via a generating operation of the parent process, a child process;
creating, via a creating operation of the parent process, a first object that
describes a first function that is accessed by the child process, the first
object forming a communication path between the parent process and the
child process;
loading, via a loading operation of the parent process, the child process into a
storage;
passing a first pointer designating the first object from the parent process to the
child process;
creating, via a creating operation of the child process, a second object that
describes a second function that is accessed by the parent process, the
second object completing the communication path between the parent
process and the child process; and
passing, via a call function, a second pointer designating the second object from
the child process to the parent process.
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