Taligent, Inc.

Cisco Technology, Inc.

America Online, Inc.

Kayshav Dattatri

Eugenie L Bolton

Brian Donald Hart

Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey

Christopher P Moeller

Daniel F Chernikoff

In an example embodiment, a wireless device is operable to advertise a policy on the inclusion of the wireless device in a radio frequency map. For example, the wireless device may transmit a signal comprising a field in an extended capabilities information that indicates whether mapping of the wireless device is permissible. As another example, the wireless device may perform certain actions, such as changing media access control address, changing transmit power, and/or vary response times to prevent accurate mapping of the location of the wireless device.

Location services for a wireless device

A server agent system that provides agents, transmitted to a server by a client, that monitor specific event(s) on the server. When a pre-defined event(s) occurs, an agent performs a set action(s) in response to each event. The actions are predefined by the client. The agent requires no further intervention of the client once it is placed on the server and are created by a client or news reader and, when created by a news reader, agents are treated as a value added service provided by the application. The types of actions that an agent performs can be almost anything that the client desires and include the execution of Java and/or Javascript programs which are supplied by the client or the server. An agent's events and actions are subject to the same access control security restrictions as the client that submitted the agent. The types of agents available on a server are pre-defined and are supplied as agent templates and are building blocks for the client to build agents with. A server can only supply agents that it understands and publishes the available agent templates and events on an agent home page where clients select from the list of agent types available on the server and submit an agent to the server. Servers also provide administration services for clients with resident agents where they monitor and manage their agents on the server. Each agent is assigned a unique identifier and token by the server. Names can also be assigned to an agent by the client. Server administrators are provided with an administration function to maintain and manage agents resident on that server. Agent objects are created on the server that uniquely identify that agent which is mapped to the proper event and is triggered upon occurrence of that event. When the agent is triggered, its action list is processed, executed and agent information and statistics are logged.

Server agent system

An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer and a memory component in the computer and support for a host system. A code library is stored in the memory component. The code library includes computer program logic implementing an object-oriented class library. The object-oriented class library comprises related object-oriented classes for enabling the application to access in an object-oriented manner services provided by the operating system. The object-oriented classes include methods for accessing the operating system services using procedural function calls compatible with the native procedural interface of the operating system. The computer processes object-oriented statements contained in the application and defined by the class library by executing methods from the class library corresponding to the object-oriented statements. The object-oriented application includes support for multi-tasking.

Method and apparatus for running an object-oriented program on a host

An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application to access in an object-oriented manner a procedural operating system having a native procedural interface is disclosed. The apparatus includes a computer and a memory component in the computer. A code library is stored in the memory component. The code library includes computer program logic implementing an object-oriented class library. The object-oriented class library comprises related object-oriented classes for enabling the application to access in an object-oriented manner services provided by the operating system. The object-oriented classes include methods for accessing the operating system services using procedural function calls compatible with the native procedural interface of the operating system. The computer processes object-oriented statements contained in the application and defined by the class library by executing methods from the class library corresponding to the object-oriented statements. An object-oriented interprocess communication system is employed to enhance communication between threads.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Kayshav Dattatri