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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1995
Charles E McManis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer network having first and second network entities. The first network entity includes a packet object generator that generates a packet object including an executable source method, an executable destination method, and data associated with each of the methods. The first network entity also includes a communications interface to transmit the packet object. The second network entity includes a communications interface to receive the packet object and an incoming packet object handler to handle the received packet object. The incoming packet object handler includes a source and destination verifier to execute the source and destination methods with their associated data so as to verify the source and destination of the received object packet.