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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1998
Graham W. Glass, Dallas, TX (US);
Recursion Software, Inc., Frisco, TX (US);
Abstract
In another aspect of the invention, a method for communicating between Java objects ( ) residing in different computer platforms linked by a network includes the steps of sending a message ( ) from a sender object ( ) to a virtual object ( ) in a first host address and port number ( ), the virtual object ( ) being a virtual representation of a receiver object ( ) in a second host address and port number ( ), and creating a messenger ( ) in the first host address and port number ( ). The messenger ( ) is then sent to deliver the message ( ), which carries an identity of the receiver object ( ), destination address of the second host address and port number ( ), and the address of the result in the first host address and port number ( ). At the second host address and port number ( ), an host address and port number is invoked between the messenger ( ) and the receiver object ( ) for conveying the message thereto.