Patent ID: 7970801
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating data, comprising: receiving a dataset to communicate from a first computing device that executes a first operating system to a second computing device that executes a second operating system, wherein the first operating system encodes one or more data values in the received dataset using a first device-dependent format different from and incompatible with a second device-dependent format that the second operating system uses to encode the one or more data values; transforming, at the first computing device, the one or more data values in the received dataset from the first device-dependent format associated with the first operating system into an intermediate device-independent format, wherein the transforming the one or more data values from the first device-dependent format into the intermediate device-independent format includes: communicating a portable buffer that packages the populated initialized data tree from the first computing device to the second computing device, wherein the second computing device, in response to receiving the communicated portable buffer from the first computing device: