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System and method for automatically localizing access to remote network components using implicit agent relocation

  • US 6,115,736 A
  • Filed: 04/23/1998
  • Issued: 09/05/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/01/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of implicitly localizing agent access to a network component located on a remote host, comprising the steps of:

  • hosting, in a first agent execution subsystem located in a local host, an agent;

    receiving, from the agent, a method invocation instruction associated with the network component;

    determining a host location of the network component by resolving the previously instantiated network component to the host location; and

    if the host location is determined to be local, executing the method invocation on the network component in the local host;

    else relocating, from the first agent execution subsystem, the agent to the remote host without receiving any explicit relocation instructions from the agent;

    wherein, in a second agent execution subsystem, the agent is incorporated into an address space shared by the network component.

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