Name service apparatus using resource management, name resolution and

Abstract

In a name service apparatus, a virtual resource management table has three sorts of fields, name, position and procedure. For a virtual resource, its name, position of an actual resource and name of procedure to handle the actual resource are held in correspondence to each other. On receiving inquiry request for name, a communication section requests a retrieval section of a name resolution section to carry out name resolution. The retrieval section retrieves the virtual image management table using the received name as a key. If the received name is a virtual resource, the position of the actual resource and the procedure name are obtained from the table and access to the virtual resource becomes possible.