The Other Name for such interface is Marked or Tagged Interface's.
The following are the some examples of such Interface's 1)Serialiazable 2)Cloneable there r many such interface's in java using such Interface's will get the previleged permission's from the jvm.
example: any class implement's serialiazable interface such class object's transferable from one system to the other.
Interfaces with empty bodies are often used as markers to tag classes as having a certain property or behavior. Such interfaces are also called ability interfaces. Java APIs provide several examples of such marker interfaces: java.lang.Cloneable java.io.Serializable java.util.EventListener.
Cloneable Serializable EventListener singleThread model RAndom Access are the marker interface and they just inform to JVM to provide particular property in the objects