A smart passive reference to an object oriented object provides control over creation and deletion of the object it references. A reference count is incremented when an active reference to an object is created, and is decremented when an active reference to the object is deleted. The smart passive reference...http://www.google.de/patents/US6366932?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6366932 - Apparatus and method for accessing an object oriented object using a smart passive reference
