Patent ID: 6260074
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for communicating a first generic object, said first generic object including an object of a type T, said method comprising:a) in a first address space, marshaling the first generic object to generate a marshaled form of the first generic object comprising a marshaled form of the object of type T;b) communicating the marshaled form of the first generic object from the first address space to a second address space; andc) in the second address space, unmarshaling the marshaled form of the first generic object to generate a second generic object comprising the marshaled form of the object of type T, without unmarshaling the object of type T, where unmarshaling of the marshaled form of the first generic object further comprises copying the marshaled form of the object of type T from the marshaled form of the first generic object into the second generic object.