The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1995
Richard Campbell Foltz, Round Rock, TX (US);
William Harold Gengler, Austin, TX (US);
Joseph Christopher Lucas, Jr, Round Rock, TX (US);
John Vincent Meegan, Austin, TX (US);
Troy Gary Reish, Austin, TX (US);
James Michael Rolette, Jr, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machine Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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.