Patent ID: 11972010
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
generating, by a source isolate of a plurality of isolates, an external object reference;
passing, by the source isolate, the external object reference to a target isolate of the plurality of isolates;
storing, by the source isolate and in an exported reference table, an entry that maps the external object reference to an object stored in a heap of the source isolate;
performing, by the target isolate, a task that accesses the object using the external object reference;
receiving, by the source isolate and from a finalizer of the external object reference, a notification that the external object reference has become unreferenced; and
in response to the notification, removing, by the source isolate, the entry from the exported reference table.