International Business Machines Corporation

Troy Gary Reish

Jerry Walter Malcolm

Scott Anthony Morgan

Craig Ardner Swearingen

James Michael Rolette, Jr

William Harold Gengler

Robert F Selby

John Vincent Meegan

Charles Robert McKelley, Jr

Richard Campbell Foltz

Joseph Christopher Lucas, Jr

Wanda K Johnson

A data processing system for managing a plurality of objects within said data processing system, the distributed data processing system having an object oriented environment. A container object is created for holding objects and a plurality of objects is detected within the data processing system. A filter object is associated with the container object, wherein the filter object receives the plurality of objects within the data processing system and the filter object passes selected ones of the plurality of objects to the container object. The data processing system is periodically monitored to detect changes in the plurality of objects. The container object is automatically updated using the filter object to pass selected ones of the plurality of objects to the container object in response to monitoring the data processing system, wherein the container object is automatically updated.

Creation of manageable management collections using filters

A method and architecture for the administration of large cells in an Open System Foundation/Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE). The architecture organizes the Cell Directory Service (CDS) name space of the OSF/DCE to allow a network administrator to easily determine network resources under their control, and work with a subset of the network resources. The OSF/DCE name space is organized as resource realms having a CDS component and a registry component. The CDS component of the resource realms has a fixed portion containing at least two roots describing sub-systems and realm resources (e.g., printer, serial devices, etc.). The CDS component also contains individual realms defined directly below the fixed portions. The registry component has a root consisting of the security, group and realm portions. Individual realms are defined as directories below the root. The resulting resource manager which allows the OSF/DCE name space to be organized/partitioned into separate, administrable name spaces which allows easy determination as to what resources are controlled by the administrator, and easily administrable subsets of network resources.

Method and apparatus for resource management for a lan server enterprise

A generic font request is changed to an operating system specific format font request. A font request is received from an application by a font handler. Both the application and the font handler are typically run by an operating system in a computer memory. Once the font handler determines that the font request is a generic font request, i.e. is in a format different than the operating system specific format expected by the operating system, it translates the generic font request to an operating system specific format font request.

Generic font specification leading to specific font selection

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