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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Graham Hamilton, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael N Nelson, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395650 ; 364D / ; 36424341 ; 36424294 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for client programs adapted for use in an object oriented, distributed computing system, to have the ability to communicate and use references to objects in a way which improves the benefits of software caching are disclosed. A mechanism is described whereby a network object handle (an augmented object handle) can be used to reference both a server and a local cache manager. When the augmented object handle is transmitted it is automatically updated to use a local cache manager in its target environment (i.e. on the same machine on which the receiving client program resides) if possible.