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6393497 Downloadable smart proxies for performing processing associated with a remote procedure call in a distributed system  
Use of a smart proxy as a wrapper around a stub in a distributed system. Instead of receiving a stub as a result of a remote procedure call, a caller receives a smart proxy including the stub as an...
6378002 Object oriented server process framework with implicit data handling registry for remote method invocations  
An object oriented framework provides a set of objects that perform computer system server functions and that permit a framework user to add extensions for defining a Server Process category of...
6370589 Process for performing at least one test on at least one of the objects of an object-oriented program capable of running in parallel on a computer  
The description of the invention relates to a process for performing tests by means of which functionality and the real-time behavior of objects derived from concurrent classes can be tested. The...
6366958 NETBIOS protocol support for a DCE RPC mechanism  
A DCE RPC mechanism normally uses a TCP/IP-based transport service to enable client machines to make remote procedure calls to server machines in a distributed computing environment. NETBIOS...
6353837 Method and apparatus providing mass storage access from systems using different meta-data formats  
A method and apparatus for accessing storage from at least two different host computers features creating a first file having a first meta-data format and user data blocks in a mass storage medium...
6339783 Procedure execution device and procedure execution method  
The objective of this invention is to allow the user to invoke a composite remote procedure by connecting remote procedures that are managed on networks in distribution with each other, or define a...
6336148 Automatic checking of public contracts and private constraints on distributed objects  
In a distributed system, a method and apparatus for automatically checking objects according to a specification which includes public contracts and private constraints. Public contracts are obeyed...
6327607 Invocation architecture for generally concurrent process resolution  
An invocation architecture for generally concurrent process resolution comprises a plurality of interconnected processors, some of the processors being homogeneous processors and others of the...
6324567 Method and apparatus for providing multiple commands to a server  
A method and apparatus allows a client to easily send multiple commands to a server. The client registers one or more tables with the method and apparatus of the present invention, which contain...
6321275 Interpreted remote procedure calls  
The present invention performs interpreted remote procedure calls. By utilizing an interpreter, the present invention saves significant storage within a data processing system that performs remote...
6321274 Multiple procedure calls in a single request  
Calls to a server computer in a system that includes a client computer and a server computer connected to each other by a network are processed at the client computer by receiving information...
6321249 Dynamic system configuration using an object-based client-server system  
A method and apparatus are provided to enable other system elements to obtain configuration attribute modifications from a print management system. An attribute broker provides two methods,...
6282581 Mechanism for resource allocation and for dispatching incoming calls in a distributed object environment  
A communications framework operable to support remote method invocation in a distributed object environment. The communications framework supporting a base class having an interface definition for...
6272559 Deferred reconstruction of objects and remote loading for event notification in a distributed system  
Event notification in a distributed system using an object maintained in serialized form, referred to as a marshalled object. For event notification, a machine registers with a device to receive...
6272557 Framework for marshaling and unmarshaling argument object references  
Methods and devices for reducing computing overhead in a distributed client/server based computing system which utilize an efficient framework for marshaling and unmarshaling argument object...
6260074 Method and apparatus for passing generic objects in a distributed system  
A method and apparatus for passing generic objects in a distributed system is disclosed. At the receiving process, the generic object is unmarshaled. However, the object of type T is maintained in...
6253256 Deferred reconstruction of objects and remote loading in a distributed system  
A method and system for transmitting objects in an object-oriented distributed system allows the reconstruction of objects and downloading of code associated with such object reconstruction to be...
6249822 Remote procedure call method  
A computer network includes a client and a server which are preferably independently operable computers that cooperate to perform different procedures of an application program. The server executes...
6226689 Method and mechanism for interprocess communication using client and server listening threads  
A method and mechanism for interprocess communication between a thread of a client application and a thread of a server application. The mechanism includes a server listening thread and a client...
6223217 Distributed object networking service  
Remote procedure call (RPC) objects are provided in both a client node and a server node of a client-server network for invoking and responding to service requests generated by calls to local...
6212578 Method and apparatus for managing dependencies in a distributed computing environment for ensuring the safety of remote procedure calls  
A method and apparatus for managing dependencies in a distributed environment to ensure the safety of remote procedure calls is disclosed. Each remote procedure call between a calling procedure and...
6202089 Method for configuring at runtime, identifying and using a plurality of remote procedure call endpoints on a single server process  
An invention for assigning a plurality of remote procedure call (RPC) endpoints at runtime to a single server process, and for the server process itself to efficiently inform a requesting client of...
6195685 Flexible event sharing, batching, and state consistency mechanisms for interactive applications  
A system, method and computer program storage device providing event and/or state sharing support e.g., for building object-oriented interactive groupware in wide-area distributed environments...
6192418 System and method for performing external procedure calls from a client program to a server program while both are operating in a heterogenous computer  
There is provided a system and method in a heterogeneous multiprocessing system for performing external procedure calls from a Client Program to a Server Program, both of which are stored in a...
6189048 Mechanism for dispatching requests in a distributed object system  
Data structures, methods and devices for reducing computing overhead associated with dispatching a distributed object invocation and improving the flexibility of the dispatch framework in a...
6175879 Method and system for migrating connections between receive-any and receive-direct threads  
A method and mechanism for efficiently handling connections in a computer system between client sockets and data sockets of a server. The server includes a receive-any thread having a socket mask...
6170018 Remote procedure calling using an existing descriptor mechanism  
Doors are implemented in an existing operating system by using a novel adaptation of existing data structures and procedures which represent and control data files of the operating system. A door...
6170019 Means system and method for operating an apparatus  
A device for operating an apparatus includes a server, a central monitoring module, an apparatus for communicating between the server and the monitoring module, a plurality of control, maintenance...
6167565 Method and system of custom marshaling of inter-language parameters  
A computer-based custom marshaling method and system for custom marshaling of parameters during invocation of functions implemented in a second language by computer programs implemented in an first...
6157961 Client-side stub interpreter  
The present invention provides an elegant and compact way to provide mechanisms for invocation of objects by client applications and for argument passing between client applications and object...
6154747 Hash table implementation of an object repository  
A method uses a plurality of hash tables to provide an object repository for object oriented application development and use. The method includes storing an object identifier and a representation...
6131126 Method and apparatus for space-efficient inter-process communication  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus in a computer system for inter-process communication. A first procedure allocates a first buffer in a first memory space shared by the first procedure...
6128679 Computer for executing I/O instructions, by emulation, in a foreign application program wherein the emulator result thread is blocked from running between processes  
A computer for executing I/O instructions, by emulation, in a foreign application program includes an emulator program which has a Send thread, a Get thread, and single Result thread. The Send...
6125366 Implicit session context system with object state cache  
An implicit session system with an object state cache. The implicit sessioning avoids explicitly passing session parameters in each function call to an object by implicitly associating the session...
6125400 Method and system of running object oriented programs across a network through compression and distillation of remote method invocation  
A method and system for reducing the amount of information sent across a socket when invoking an application using a remote method invocation. The present invention involves creating a list of the...
6125402 Method and system for executing one of several forms of a multi-purpose program  
Methods, systems, and software for executing a particular form of a multi-purpose program in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multi-purpose program is...
6108715 Method and system for invoking remote procedure calls  
A method and system that allows a client process to invoke a remote procedure. An operating system maintains a table with an entry for each remote procedure. Each entry of this table contains a...
6105059 Programming information for servers and clients in a distributed computing environment using stub codes with event information for a debugging utility  
A method and system for generating event information in a distributed computing environment. An event information packet is passed between the client system and the server system in a remote...
6067580 Integrating distributed computing environment remote procedure calls with an advisory work load manager  
Distributed computing environment (DCE) remote procedure calls (RPCs) are integrated with an advisory work load manager (WLM) to provide a way to intelligently dispatch RPC requests among the...
6061744 Generous tit-for-tat cooperative distributed computing  
A distributed computing method is disclosed. The method includes a requester making a number of requests to a number of other computers to perform a number of operations for the requestor's...
6026439 File transfers using playlists  
A method and implementing apparatus is provided for transferring data from memory to a file decoder which is effective to decode the file for further processing. In an illustrated example, a video...
6026414 System including a proxy client to backup files in a distributed computing environment  
Disclosed is a system for backing up files in a distributed computing system. A file server maintains files in a shared name space. The file server provides a first backup client program and a...
6026404 Method and system for executing and operation in a distributed environment  
A system, method, and computer readable-medium for performing operations associated with browser requests are provided. The system includes a plurality of dispatchers coupled to a plurality of web...
6016516 Remote procedure processing device used by at least two linked computer systems  
To provide a device for processing remote procedures that makes it possible to easily obtain a desired service by combining multiple remote procedures, and that allows a user of a client...
6011918 Methods, systems and computer program products for generating client/server applications  
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for automatically generating client/server applications from an application written to execute on a single processing system. The...
6009264 Node coordination using a channel object and point-to-point protocol  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for coordinating a plurality of sub-tasks performed by a group of nodes of a parallel processor computer system. An application subdivides a function...
6006278 Method and system for importing remote functions to a network computer  
A computer network (10) is provided that includes first and second computer systems (12 and 14). The first computer system (12) includes a software application (24) having a function call (26). The...
5999988 Method and apparatus for generating and employing a run-time generated stub to reference an object in object oriented systems  
The method and apparatus for generating and employing a run-time generated stub to reference an object in an object oriented system. This method and apparatus represents in a first virtual machine...
5999987 Concurrent processing in object oriented parallel and near parallel  
In sequential object oriented languages such as C++, a mechanism is provided to permit multiple asynchronous processing operations without compiler modifications, language extensions or special...
5991823 Low overhead object adaptor  
Data structures and various methods for invoking and creating objects are used in a distributed object system in order to implement subcontracts. A subcontract is a selected grouping of basic...
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