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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1998
Bryan O'Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Scheifler, Somerville, MA (US);
Peter C. Jones, Winchester, MA (US);
Ann M. Wollrath, Groton, MA (US);
Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold, Lexington, MA (US);
James H. Waldo, Dracut, MA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Downloading code for communicating with a device that joins a network. When the device joins the network, it transmits a multicast packet including a reference to code for use in communicating with the device. Receivers in the network use the reference to download the code for constructing objects to communicate with the device, and the receivers respond with a reference to a lookup service in the network. Using the reference from the receivers, the device registers with the lookup service.