US Patent 7543271 Compiling source code using generic classes

Patent 7543271 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on June, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7543271

Date of Patent

June 2, 2009

Patent Application Number

10657463

Date Filed

September 8, 2003

Patent Primary Examiner

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Tuan Q. Dam

Patent abstract

A method includes receiving a portion of JAVA™ language software having a declaration of an instance of a generic class, parsing the declaration into a token corresponding to the generic class, and generating an intermediate language code block corresponding to the parsed declaration. The intermediate language code block is executable by a runtime engine. A system for compiling includes a parser receiving JAVA™ language source code having an instruction referencing a generic class and specifying a type of the generic class, and a code generator generating intermediate language code representing the source code.