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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2000
Leonard G. Fehskens, Westboro, MA (US);
Colin Strutt, Westford, MA (US);
Steven K. Wong, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Jill F. Callander, Hudson, MA (US);
Peter H. Burgess, Salisbury, MA (US);
Kathy Jo Nelson, Nashua, NH (US);
Matthew J. Guertin, Westford, MA (US);
Gerard R. Plouffe, Nashua, NH (US);
Mark W. Sylor, Nashua, NH (US);
Kenneth W. Chapman, Nashua, NH (US);
Robert C. Schuchard, Ashburnham, MA (US);
Stanley I. Goldfarb, Hudson, MA (US);
Anil V. Navkal, Maynard, MA (US);
Dennis O. Rogers, Leominster, MA (US);
Linsey B. O'Brien, Wellesley, MA (US);
Philip J. Trasatti, Brookline, NH (US);
Christine C. Chan-Lizardo, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Benjamin M. England, Haverhill, MA (US);
James L. Lemmon, Jr., Leominster, MA (US);
Richard L. Rosenbaum, Pepperell, MA (US);
Ruth E. J. Kohls, Acton, MA (US);
David L. Aronson, Boston, MA (US);
Allan B. Moore, Acton, MA (US);
Robert R. N. Ross, Mansfield, MA (US);
Danny L. Smith, Haverhill, MA (US);
William C. Adams, Jr., Topsfield, MA (US);
Arundahati G. Sankar, Andover, MA (US);
G. Paul Koning, Brookline, NH (US);
Sheryl F. Namoglu, Mount Vernon, NH (US);
Mark J. Seger, Harvard, MA (US);
Timothy M. Dixon, Woodcote Reading, GB;
Jeffrey R. Harrow, Amherst, NH (US);
Compaq Information Technologies Group L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands and a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed. In addition, the system includes storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a command to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules.