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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth Edward Davies, Eastleigh, GB;
Donna Ngar-Ting Dillenberger, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Glyn Normington, Winchester, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709226 ; 709104 ; 709303 ;
Abstract
A group of object servers configured for workload management is described wherein the group exports an object reference to clients that may want to call the group in order to perform some work. The object reference has a field which points to a workload management unit which performs workload management among the group at the Internet Protocol (IP) level.