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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2003
W. Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark W. Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jana Z. Sedivy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Trevor F. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Diana Smetters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dirk Balfanz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Stewart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
W. Keith Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark W. Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jana Z. Sedivy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Trevor F. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Diana Smetters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dirk Balfanz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Stewart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for enabling arbitrary components to control communications without having or requiring prior knowledge of each other. The system includes a first component that creates controller objects and provides the objects to other components. The controller objects include instructions which when executed by the other components enable the components to generate user interfaces for controlling the first component. Further, the controller objects are encrypted and are used to authenticate the senders or receivers of the objects.