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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1998
Motohiro Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Kiriha, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An agent identification device that identifies an agent device that dynamically transmits a program to another agent device by flexibly dealing with various managed functions and changes in condition of a network supplied by the agent device. The agent identification device includes a retrieval rule evaluation section and a communication address retrieval section. The retrieval rule evaluation section has the function of deriving the identifier of an agent device to which a program is next transmitted, based on input data, and the function of storing a retrieval rule being a program for deriving the identifier of the agent device and information used to evaluate the retrieval rule. The communication address retrieval section has the function of deriving the communication address of the agent device to which a program is next transmitted, by inputting an output from the retrieval rule evaluation section, and the function of storing DN-communication address conversion information in which the correspondence between the output of the retrieval rule evaluation section and the communication address is described.