Patent ID: 7571231
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating function calls or event notification between two applications, said method comprising: a platform independent language application passing an event port number identifying an event port of the platform independent language application and a command port number identifying a command port of the platform independent language application to a native language application, wherein the port numbers are stored in a memory accessible to the native language application; the native language application opening, on the event port, an event notification stream to the platform independent language application; the native language application opening, on the command port, a function call stream to the platform independent language application; the native language application passing one or more function calls to the platform independent language application via the function call stream to invoke functions of the platform independent language application corresponding to the function calls; and the native language application receiving one or more event notifications from the platform independent language application via the event notification stream.