Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5175848 | Method for copying linked data objects with selective copying of children objects and using a link table to record object linkages A file management system allows the linking of objects. In each link one object serves as a parent and the other as a child. When a parent object is copied the parent object is copied to produce a copy of the parent object. Additionally, the child objects... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5161225 | Persistent stream for processing time consuming and reusable queries in an object oriented database management system Time consuming and reusable queries are handled in an object oriented database management system by providing a persistent stream object class. The persistent stream object class is a subclass of the stream class which is typically provided to encapsulate... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5129083 | Conditional object creating system having different object pointers for accessing a set of data structure objects An object based operating system for a multitasking computer system provides objects which represent the architecture or interrelationships of the systems's resources. Access to certain objects is required in order to use corresponding resources in the sy... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4953080 | Object management facility for maintaining data in a computer system A computer having a file management system is presented. The file management system includes a plurality of application programs, a plurality of data files, a plurality of class data structures and a plurality of object data structures. Each class data st... | 08/28/1990 |
