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Framework for providing quality of service requirements in a distributed object-oriented computer system

  • US 6,691,148 B1
  • Filed: 12/24/1998
  • Issued: 02/10/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for assuring quality of service in an invocation of a server object by a client object in a distributed system, the method comprising:

  • creating a contract that specifies a level of quality of service required by the client object and a level of quality of service provided by the system;

    receiving a remote method invocation call from the client object;

    updating the contract with a current level of quality of service provided by the system in response to the remote method invocation call;

    comparing the required level of quality of service to the current level of quality of service; and

    sending the remote method invocation call to the server object when the current level of quality of service satisfies the required level of quality of service.

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