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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1998
Daniel T. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Neelakantan Sundaresan, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A Mail Facility Layer providing a general, semantics-free mail paradigm for asynchronous communication between distributed objects. It provides a level of abstraction in terms of mail, virtual mailbox, post office, and mail queue. It hides the details of implementation and transport and provides location transparency. A mail is asynchronously communicated between distributed objects by associating a destination with a name, wherein the destination is located on a remote system; associating the name with a first virtual mailbox representing the destination, wherein the first virtual mailbox is located on a local system; creating the mail; opening the first virtual mailbox; putting the mail in the first virtual mailbox; sending the mail from the first virtual mailbox to a second virtual mailbox, wherein the second virtual mailbox is located on the remote system; opening the second virtual mailbox; and getting the mail from the second virtual mailbox.