Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Ratna K Daggubati

Wing K Lee

Dora Potluri

Ivan K Chow

Jianxiang Yang

Yiquin Ye

The invention comprises methods and apparatus for implementing a name service. In the present invention, a name service compliant with the CORBA CosNaming specification may be implemented which incorporates load balancing. This invention involves a name service having a data store and a data store interface which are not necessarily configured for the persistent storage of information. This invention further involves creating a load balancing index within the data store interface and using name-overloading to create names containing a load balancing name identifier which may be used for referencing in the load balancing index. The data store interface of this embodiment could also include a specific bind operation, a specific resolve operation, or both.

Method and apparatus for implementing CORBA compliant name services incorporating load balancing features

A naming service implementation method and apparatus. The method involves creating a name service, preferably compliant with the CORBA CosNaming Specification, where the name service is arranged to store persistent information using a directory service. This aspect involves creating a storage mechanism comprising a directory service, preferably a directory service compliant with LDAP version 2, which is arranged to store the persistent information for the name service. An additional embodiment may be implemented by creating a data store interface for interacting with the directory service, wherein such interaction comprises the use of protocol compliant with LDAP version 2.

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Ratna K Daggubati