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Systems and methods for tracking a history of changes associated with software packages in a computing system

Patent Number: 8443361
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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In order to track actions performed by a package manager, a computing system can be configured to include a tagging tool. The tagging tool can be configured to cooperate with the package manager in order to determine and generate a history of the actions performed by the package manager. The history can include a description of the actions, the reasons why the actions were performed, and a list and description of the software programs, files, and software libraries that are affected by the ...

Dynamic file system restriction for portable storage devices

Patent Number: 8443360
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A method of installing an application on a portable storage device is disclosed. The method includes receiving file system commands issued by an installer application and selectively intercepting and modifying at least one file system command before the at least one file system command is executed with respect to a destination file system. The method restricts access to a first file system located at a fixed storage memory device and directs access to a second file system located on the ...

Method and system for providing a filter for a router

Patent Number: 8443359
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A method and system for providing a standardized set of filters for a router. A set of pre-written filters are provided in a file, and a program is run on a computer to identify one of these pre-written filters as a substitute for a filter that was specifically written for the router. The standardized filter file is then loaded onto the router and the identified substitute filters are used instead of the filter that has been specifically written for the router. Preferably, the computer ...

Hot pluggable virtual machine

Patent Number: 8443358
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An exemplary method for a hot pluggable virtual machine comprises authenticating a user within an active host environment on a host device, executing a virtual machine driver, configuring a guest environment, and activating the guest environment for the virtual machine on the host ...

Patching of multi-level data containers storing portions of pre-installed software

Patent Number: 8443357
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A computing system provided according to an aspect of the present invention includes a developer system which sends a set of patches along with metadata in a package. The metadata may include hierarchical paths, with each path indicating a corresponding target (file or archive) which is to be replaced to apply the corresponding patch. A patch tool receives the package and applies the patches using the metadata. According to another aspect of the present invention, a patch tool forms a tree ...

Image forming apparatus

Patent Number: 8443356
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An image forming apparatus connected to a plurality of accessory device includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of control programs to be updated corresponding to each of the plurality of accessory devices, and a control unit configured to send a control program whose update time is the longest among the plurality of control programs to be updated which are stored in the storage unit, to the accessory device in priority to other control ...

Life cycle management system for intelligent electronic devices

Patent Number: 8443355
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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This invention relates to the Life Cycle Management System for distributed Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) starting from the design phase to the end of service phase. Hence, it caters to the needs from installation via engineering, installation/commissioning phases, until asset management and remote service support of the devices during the operational phase The increasing decentralization of the involved components via networks, especially via the Internet, is a key criterion and ...

Detecting new or modified portions of code

Patent Number: 8443354
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Detecting new or modified portions of executable code is disclosed. An indication is received that a prior version of an executable file has been replaced by a new version. A security response is provided if a process associated with the executable file attempts to perform a restricted action and a new or changed portion of code comprising the new version has executed. If no new or changed portion of code has executed, the restricted action is allowed to an extent determined previously for ...

Apparatus, method, and system for providing a decision mechanism for conditional commits in an atomic region

Patent Number: 8443353
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An apparatus and method is described herein for conditionally committing and/or speculative checkpointing transactions, which potentially results in dynamic resizing of transactions. During dynamic optimization of binary code, transactions are inserted to provide memory ordering safeguards, which enables a dynamic optimizer to more aggressively optimize code. And the conditional commit enables efficient execution of the dynamic optimization code, while attempting to prevent transactions ...

Processing strings based on whether the strings are short strings or long strings

Patent Number: 8443352
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The specification of a string within source code written in a programming language is received. The source code is processed for ultimate execution of a computer program encompassing the source code, by at least performing the following. It is determined whether the string specified is a short string or a long string. The string is processed in accordance with a first manner where the string is a short string. The string is processed in accordance with a second manner where the string is a ...

Parallel loops in a workflow

Patent Number: 8443351
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The subject disclosure pertains broadly to parallelization of workflow loops. More specifically, loop containers and related elements are cloned several times to match a desired number of parallel iterations or threads. The cloned containers are communicatively coupled or connected to a single enumerator component and can interact therewith to facilitate acquisition of collection elements. This arrangement, among other things, ensures that the correct number of iterations are executed as if ...

System and method for scaling simulations and games

Patent Number: 8443350
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A system and method for modeling simulation and game artificial intelligence as a data management problem are described. A scripting language provides game designers and players with a data-driven artificial intelligence scheme for customizing behavior for individual agents. Query processing and indexing techniques efficiently execute large numbers of agent scripts, thus providing a framework for games with a large number of ...

Systems and methods for determining compute kernels for an application in a parallel-processing computer system

Patent Number: 8443349
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A runtime system implemented in accordance with the present invention provides an application platform for parallel-processing computer systems. Such a runtime system enables users to leverage the computational power of parallel-processing computer systems to accelerate/optimize numeric and array-intensive computations in their application programs. This enables greatly increased performance of high-performance computing (HPC) ...

Application program interface of a parallel-processing computer system that supports multiple programming languages

Patent Number: 8443348
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Translating declarative models

Patent Number: 8443347
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for translating declarative models. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate processing declarative models to perform various operations on applications, such as, for example, application deployment, application updates, application control such as start and stop, application monitoring by instrumenting the applications to emit events, and so on. Declarative models of applications are processed and ...

Server evaluation of client-side script

Patent Number: 8443346
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A facility is described for server-side evaluation of client-side script, such as to crawl and index dynamically generated links. In various embodiments, the facility provides an object that emulates a browser object. The provided object exposes a function for performing steps comprising receiving a first link and storing the received first link in a list of links to be processed. The facility receives a second link to be processed, loads a second document identified by the received second ...

Dynamic processing of embedded compiled programming language code

Patent Number: 8443345
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Development using the JavaScript programming language can be limited since JavaScript code is interpreted. Compiling code at a client may interfere with the dynamicity and portability of web pages. Dynamicity and portability of web pages can be preserved while providing the features of a compiled programming language. A compiled programming language code can be embedded within an interpreted programming language code. The embedded compiled programming language code can be extracted and ...

Methods for identifying gating opportunities from a high-level language program and generating a hardware definition

Patent Number: 8443344
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Approaches for generating a hardware definition from a program specified in a high-level language. In one approach, a first set of blocks of instructions in the high-level language program is identified. Each block in the first set is bounded by a respective loop designation in the high-level language. For each block in the first set, an associated respective second set of one or more blocks of the program is identified. Each block in the second set is outside the block in the first set. A ...

Context-sensitive slicing for dynamically parallelizing binary programs

Patent Number: 8443343
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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In one embodiment of the invention a method comprising (1) receiving an unstructured binary code region that is single-threaded; (2) determining a slice criterion for the region; (3) determining a call edge, a return edge, and a fallthrough pseudo-edge for the region based on analysis of the region at a binary level; and (4) determining a context-sensitive slice based on the call edge, the return edge, the fallthrough pseudo-edge, and the slice criterion. Embodiments of the invention may ...

Static analysis using interactive and integration tools

Patent Number: 8443342
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate static software program analysis using an interactive tool and/or a disassembly integration tool are provided. An interactive tool enables a user to view alternative error paths in association with an error such that the user can identify any valid errors within program code. A disassembly integration tool provides source code that is interleaved with an intermediate ...

System for and method of capturing application characteristics data from a computer system and modeling target system

Patent Number: 8443341
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A system for, method of and computer program product captures performance-characteristic data from the execution of a program and models system performance based on that data. Performance-characterization data based on easily captured reuse distance metrics is targeted, defined as the total number of memory references between two accesses to the same piece of data. Methods for efficiently capturing this kind of metrics are described. These data can be refined into easily interpreted ...

Execution capture and replay based debugging

Patent Number: 8443340
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A debugging tool is provided that is capable of recording code paths taken during a program's execution, and along the way capture the memory state at configurable points in time such as function exits or statements. The tool also records interactions with external systems like a database, and captures which statements resulted in interactions with these systems. An analysis of the output of the debugging tool enables a developer to understand which part of the code executed; what the value ...

Method and/or system for transforming between trees and strings

Patent Number: 8443339
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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Embodiments of articles, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a method of transforming one or more trees to one or more corresponding symbol strings according to an association of trees and symbol strings is disclosed. In another embodiment, as another example, a method of transforming between at least a first and at least a second expression is disclosed in which the expressions have a common view that ...

Logical extensions to intermediate code

Patent Number: 8443338
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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An assembly aggregate comprising a virtual, logical view of an arbitrarily defined collection of intermediate code and metadata can be authored, factored, accessed, modified, and distributed. Multiple physical containers of assembly information can be aggregated to create a single logical assembly called an assembly aggregate. An assembly can thus be redefined as a logical view against (or projection over) the assembly aggregate. Such an assembly can be targeted to the requester: that is, ...

Methodology and tools for tabled-based protocol specification and model generation

Patent Number: 8443337
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for associating and storing a code fragment for each cell of a table for a protocol specification in a semantic mapping corresponding to the table, and automatically generating a formal model for the protocol specification using the table and the semantic mapping. Other embodiments are described and ...

System and method for applying model-based testing to train control systems

Patent Number: 8443336
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A method for model-based testing of an industrial system includes modeling functionality of an industrial system using a modeling computer language, enhancing the model by adding functionality or refining existing functionality, generating test suites from the system model, and executing the test suites. The modeling computer language is the Unified Modeling Language (UML), wherein modeling includes defining UML use case diagrams to describe relationships among use cases specified for the ...

Trustworthy structural synthesis and expert knowledge extraction with application to analog circuit design

Patent Number: 8443329
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A system and method that does trustworthy multi-objective structural synthesis of analog circuits, and extracts expert analog circuit knowledge from the resulting tradeoffs. The system defines a space of thousands of possible topologies via a hierarchically organized combination of designer-trusted analog building blocks, the resulting topologies are guaranteed trustworthy. The system can perform a search based on a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm that uses an age-layered population ...

One click deployment

Patent Number: 8438562
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Techniques are provided for deploying applications hosted by an application service provider. An application in a first environment is automatically deployed to a second environment in response to receiving a request over a network from the party for whom the second environment is being hosted. The first environment may be an environment where applications are developed by the party over the network. Deployment of the application may entail provisioning of an environment for the ...

Mediation apparatus, installation system, installation method, and installation program

Patent Number: 8438561
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A receiving section receives an installation request including a validation date and time when a license of a plug-in is validated from a management apparatus. A license key acquiring section acquires a license key of the plug-in by requesting temporary issue thereof from a license server prior to the activation date and time. A plug-in acquiring section acquires the plug-in by requesting distribution thereof from a plug-in server prior to the validation date and time. A license key ...

Resource assessment method and system

Patent Number: 8438560
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A resource assessment method and system. The method comprises identifying at least one information technology resource, providing characteristics of the information technology resource, maintaining a database of characteristics of at least one software product, generating a data collector software tool based on the characteristics of the information technology resource and the characteristics of the software product, composing a resource assessment agent that includes the data collector ...

Method and system for platform-agnostic software installation

Patent Number: 8438559
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A method for platform-agnostic software installation involves obtaining a knowledge package, where the knowledge package includes guidelines for obtaining and installing software deliverables. The method further involves obtaining a profile, where the profile includes platform-agnostic data indicating a desired system state. The method further involves distributing the knowledge package and the profile to a first managed host and a second managed host, where the first managed host has a ...

System and method of updating programs and data

Patent Number: 8438558
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A system and method are provided to (a) convert an older or base version of software into an alternate representation of the base version; (b) convert a newer or updated version of software into an alternate representation of the updated version; (c) compare the alternate updated version with the alternate base version (d) modify portions of the alternate updated version based on the comparison and (e) create a patch, where the patch represents the differences between the alternate updated ...

Reusing an application object

Patent Number: 8438557
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for reusing an application object for use with an application program, in which the object can be reused without causing nonconformity in the consistency or security, even if the object to be reused is updated. An example of a method includes detecting that the application program ends referring to the application object, detecting that the application object is updated by the application program, deciding to reuse the ...

Peripheral device control system, its control method, and information processing apparatus, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium

Patent Number: 8438556
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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This invention has as its object to control a peripheral device by selecting optimal processing even when the version of the OS of an information processing apparatus is updated and when the version of firmware of the peripheral device is updated. To this end, according to this invention, the version information of the OS of an information processing apparatus, that of firmware of a printer, and that of a printer driver are acquired. A control method that acquires status information of the ...

Method of using an encapsulated data signature for virtualization layer activation

Patent Number: 8438555
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A system and method for opening a file in a virtualization workspace of a host computer system. The host computer system includes a virtualization workspace including a virtualization agent and virtual software layers. The virtualization agent detects a request to open a file in the virtualization workspace. In response to detecting the request, the virtualization agent determines that the file includes embedded metadata. The virtualization agent uses the embedded metadata to identify a ...

System, method, and computer program product for removing a synchronization statement

Patent Number: 8438554
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A system, method, and computer program product are provided for removing a synchronization statement. In use, synchronization statements are identified. Additionally, the synchronization statements are analyzed. Furthermore, the synchronization statements are removed based on the ...

Paralleling processing method, system and program

Patent Number: 8438553
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Paralleling processing system and method. When clusters are formed based on strongly connected components, a single cluster (fat cluster) having at least a predetermined number of blocks, or an expected processing time exceeding a predetermined threshold, is formed. The fat cluster is subjected to an unrolling process to make multiple copies of the processing of the fat cluster and to assign the copies to individual processors. Processing of the fat cluster is executed by the multiple ...

Apparatus and method for automatically parallelizing network applications through pipelining transformation

Patent Number: 8438552
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for automatically parallelizing a sequential network application through pipeline transformation are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the configuration of a network processor into a D-stage processor pipeline. Once configured, a sequential network application program is transformed into D-pipeline stages. Once transformed, the D-pipeline stages are executed in parallel within the D-stage processor pipeline. In one embodiment, ...

Code transformation

Patent Number: 8438551
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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The invention concerns the transformation of executable code from one language to another. In particular, the invention concerns the automated transformation of code. The invention concerns methods, software and computer systems for the creation of a tree comprised of nodes to be used in the transformation of code. The invention also concerns the methods, software and computer systems for the building of a parser to be used in the transformation of code. Finally, the invention also concerns ...

Type propagation for automatic casting of output types in a data flow program

Patent Number: 8438550
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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System and method for implicit downcasting at compile time in a data flow program. A first data flow function in an object-oriented dataflow program is identified, where the first function includes an input of a parent data type and an output of the parent data type. The first function is analyzed to determine if the output preserves the run-time data type of the input. A second dataflow function in the object-oriented data flow program is identified, where the second function includes a ...

Data processing with microcode designed with source coding

Patent Number: 8438549
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Programming for a data processor to execute a data processing application is provided using microcode source code. The microcode source code is assembled to produce microcode that includes digital microcode instructions with which to signal the data processor to execute the data processing ...

Consistency checking of source instruction to execute previously translated instructions between copy made upon occurrence of write operation to memory and current version

Patent Number: 8438548
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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In one embodiment, after translating a plurality of target instructions from a target memory location into a plurality of host instructions, a write operation to a target memory portion which includes said target memory location is detected. In response to the detecting, a copy of the target instructions is stored in a host memory. In response to an attempt to execute the host instructions, the copy is compared with a plurality of current target instructions presently stored in the target ...

Address translation trace message generation for debug

Patent Number: 8438547
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A data processing system and method generates debug messages by permitting an external debug tool to have real-time trace functionality. A data processor executes a plurality of data processing instructions and uses a memory for information storage. Debug module generates debug messages including address translation trace messages. A memory management unit has address translation logic for implementing address translation to translate addresses between virtual and physical forms. The debug ...

System and method for mitigating repeated crashes of an application resulting from supplemental code

Patent Number: 8438546
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Provided is a method for mitigating the effects of an application which crashes as the result of supplemental code (e.g., plug-in), particularly a plug-in from a source other than the source of the operating system of the device or the source of the application that crashes. The method includes executing the application. As the application is running, it may be monitored to determine if normal execution of instructions ceases. When that occurs, the system will make a determination if code ...

System, method and computer program product for validating results of a test utilizing a test-independent validation entity

Patent Number: 8438545
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A test validation system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, at least one test-independent validation entity is identified. In addition, results of a test of computer code are validated, utilizing the at least one test-independent validation ...

Open systems developer portal and managing software development projects

Patent Number: 8438544
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A plurality of development projects is managed by a network portal that receives a first request to be accessed using a single user account. The network portal allows a user, using the single user account, to access any corresponding members of a set of elements and any corresponding development projects. A second request is received to access a first element within the set of elements via the network portal and using a ...

Discovering multi-component software products

Patent Number: 8438543
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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A solution for discovering shared software components (C₁-C₉) of software products (PROD_a-PROD_e) installed on a data processing system is proposed. In order to achieve this result, for each software product the corresponding software components are aggregated into groups (G_a1-G_e1); each group includes software components that must be linked by a corresponding relationship (such as a co-location on the same operating system ...

Generating a management pack at program build time

Patent Number: 8438542
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Technologies are described herein for generating a management pack at program build time. Data is received that defines one or more events generated by the application program. Data is also received that defines one or more management classes for the application program. When a request to build the program is received, the data defining the events generated by the program and the data defining the management classes is utilized to generate a management pack for the program in an automated ...

Software change management extension for uniformly handling artifacts with relaxed contraints

Patent Number: 8438541
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Software change management (SCM) systems can be extended to uniformly handle artifacts which lack constraints typically imposed on managed items. In the solution, a data type associated with a SCM system can enable management of unmanaged artifacts. Unmanaged artifacts can include, but is not limited to, artifacts which lack can traditional change management constraints, managed artifacts not directly associated with the SCM, artifacts with different constraints than the SCM imposed ...

Fast late binding of object properties

Patent Number: 8438540
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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An apparatus and a method for managing class properties in a computer program is described. Classes are declared. Each class is associated with a corresponding property with at least one class inheriting one or more property corresponding to one or more other classes. A table generator forms a table of property offsets associated with each class. The table is copied forward with each inheritance declaration. A reference to a property of a class is resolved by retrieving the table associated ...