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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Bruce Warner Thorne, Salem, UT (US);
Brian Lee Jarvis, Orem, UT (US);
Novell, Inc., Orem, UT (US);
Abstract
A computer system comprises a management service having a plurality of objects. Each of the objects has at least one associated attribute with associated values. A master object in the management service includes a source attribute with associated data. One or more slave objects in the management service correspond to the master object and are distinct from the master object. Each of these slave objects has a destination attribute which corresponds to the source attribute of the master object. A propagation agent is capable of accessing the slave objects and transmitting the data associated with the source attribute to the destination attributes of the slave objects.