Method for transmitting a mobile agent in a network, associated transmitter, receiver and mobile agent
First Claim
1. A method of transmitting a mobile agent (A) in a network (R) including at least executable code (C) and/or associated data D, characterized in that it includes at least the following stages:
- the conversion (A/F) of said mobile agent (A) into a bitstream (fA) to be sent, and the sending of said bitstream (fA) by a sender node (NE) towards at least one node (N) in said network (R).
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Abstract
The invention relates to the transmission of autonomous executable code and/or of associated data in a network. It includes the placing into bitstream form of the executable code C (stage T2) and of the associated data D (stage T3) of a mobile agent A before converting them into a bitstream to be sent fA (stage T4). After the conventional digital processing operations on reception (stages R1 to R5), the receiving node NR receiving this stream fA extracts the code C and the parameters D (stages R8 and R9). The code C is run autonomously (stage E2) then the code C and its runtime context (associated parameters and resulting data) are again converted into a bitstream fA transmitted to the next node (stages T). The final node recovers the data DR resulting from the running of the code C on the nodes N of the route P (stage R11).
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1. A method of transmitting a mobile agent (A) in a network (R) including at least executable code (C) and/or associated data D, characterized in that it includes at least the following stages:
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the conversion (A/F) of said mobile agent (A) into a bitstream (fA) to be sent, and the sending of said bitstream (fA) by a sender node (NE) towards at least one node (N) in said network (R). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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8. A sender of a mobile agent in a network (R), characterized in that it includes at least the following means:
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a general, mobile agent into bitstream to be sent (A/F), converter, including at least the following attributes;
an input receiving a mobile agent (A), an output delivering the resulting bitstream (fA) to be sent, a bitstream sender (EF) including an input receiving said bitstream (fA) to be sent. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A mobile-agent receiver characterized in that it includes at least the following means:
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a bitstream receiver (RF) receiving a bitstream (fA), a mobile-agent extractor (Exa), extracting the mobile agent from a bitstream and including at least one of the following attributes;
an input receiving said received bitstream (fA), an output delivering said extracted mobile agent (A). - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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