Systems and methods for extensions and inheritance for units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system
CA 2506337 C · Owner: Smith, Walter R. · Inventors: Celis, Pedro; Ballou, Nathaniel H.; Demiroski, Bekim
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By modeling real-world application objects with complex structures behaviors, and operations described by a schema which is enforced by the hardware/software interface system, various embodiments of the present invention provide rich sub-typing functionality (3602 3604, 3606, 6322, 3624, 3626, 3642, 3644) by extending Items using extensions which provide additional data structure to already existing items type structures. Extensions are strongly typed instances that cannot exist independently and must be attached to an item or a Nested element. Extensions are also intended to address multityping issues by enabling the overlap of type instances.
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- Filed July 29, 2004 and granted January 20, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 29, 2024.
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