Back to results
US 2006/0080682 A1Published application
Run time dynamic linking
AssigneePicsel Research Limited
InventorsMajid Anwar, Paul Gardiner
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneePicsel Research Limited
InventorsMajid Anwar, Paul Gardiner
Estimating the term…
A platform independent binary object (PIBO) operable on disparate computing environments that have a selected hardware architecture without requiring rebuilding or reloading is provided. The PIBO can be loaded and linked with a cooperating computing application by an exemplary linker/loader, compiled and built together with the cooperating application. Also, the PIBO can be used in various contexts, including but not limited to, as a mechanism for dynamically linking shared objects on platforms that do not offer such native facility; in utilizing pre-written code components on platforms that otherwise would be incompatible due to a violation of platform constraints within particular code; as a mechanism for loading non object-oriented code that circumvents restrictions of multiple execution instances and repeat execution inherent in the code; and as mechanism that allows for the use of a binary object to add on functionality on a closed platform.
A system for dynamically loading and linking a binary object file on a software platform operating within a computing environment comprising:
8 The system as recited in claim 4 wherein an address of a symbol exported from a DL library opened by the first function is returned in response to an instruction provided by the cooperating computing application to execute the second function.
A method to integrate a binary object on a software platform operating within a computing environment comprising:
A method to distribute a computing library for use across disparate computing software environments operating on a defined processor architecture comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.