International Business Machines Corporation

Stephen Edward Stucka

Gerald Donald Boldt

Ronald L Heiney

Thomas Michael Ruehle

James R Carlock

Joan Stagaman Goddard

Kent S Norgren

Raymond Lowell Knudson

A triology of methods to send, receive and execute are provided for JAVA process objects on client and server so that instance variables, rather than objects, can be transferred from/to client and server. In that manner, process objects at the server can be instantiated with instance variables from the client without object transfer. The system enables use of non-JAVA process objects at the server to perform functions at the request of a JAVA client.

Distributed object instantiation of native objects in java

A virtual socket replaces the usual JAVA physical socket for interprocess communication between two JAVA processes resident on a single system. The virtual socket is created by loading and making use of the standard-in, standard out process associated with the underlying platform so that data, rather than objects, can be passed from one Java process to another.

Virtual socket for JAVA interprocess communication

Disclosed is a system and method for configuring a plurality of devices linked to a network, such as printers or any other network device, with a computer also linked to the network. A computer determines from the devices a source device. The computer then determines a set of features from features implemented in the source device. At least one value is set for each feature in the source device. The computer also determines at least one target device. For each target device, the computer then determines features from the determined set of features that the target device is capable of implementing. The computer then transmits to each target device via the network the values for the determined features the target device is capable of implementing. If there are multiple target devices, then different sets of values from the determined set of features may be transmitted to different target devices when the target devices have different capabilities with respect to the determined set of features. The target devices are configured with the values transmitted over the network.

Graphical interface for copying settings from network source device to network target devices without transmitting values not usable for features supported by network target devices

Circuit for sequencing asynchronously the direction-indicating signal and the gating signal to bidirectional switch so that the direction-indicating signal is maintained before, during, and after the gating signal. Provision is also made for producing two gating signals in response to a change in the direction of transmission through the bidirectional switch if the direction-indicating signal changes during the gating signal.

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