Mechanism for resource allocation and for dispatching incoming calls in a distributed object environment
US6282581A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 27, 1997 |
| Grant date | Aug 28, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 27, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/548
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
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 a virtual query_op method, the interface definition specifying that the query_op method accepts a reference to a specifier for an operation to be performed, and that the query_op method returns a reference to a dispatch function to be invoked to perform the operation provided as an argument to an invocation of the query_op method, wherein the dispatch function accepts as arguments a reference to a target object on which to perform the operation and a reference to an object containing a list of values passed to and returned from the operation. A target object derives from the base class and provides an implementation for the query_op method. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
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