G - Physics – 06 – F
Patent
G - Physics
06
F
354/233
G06F 15/16 (2006.01) H04L 29/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1226070
NON-UNIQUE NAMES FOR BROADCAST MESSAGES Abstract of the Disclosure A data communication system described in one of the referenced co-pending patent applications, allows communicating processors to act without reliance on a common directory to adopt logical names for respective locally attached entities (programs, data files, human operators, etc.), and to initiate sessions relative to remote entities by means of communications directed to respective entity names (rather than addresses associated with the physical locations of respective entities). The present disclosure concerns a method for extending the name adoption process of the refer- ence to allow for adoption of names either on a unique basis (association of the name with one and only one entity) or a non-unique basis (association of one name to plural entities). Names adopted on a non-unique basis are flagged as such in the adopting system and name checking communications directed to such names are ignored by processors serving the respective entity (thereby allowing the checking processors to adopt the respective non-unique name, using the existing procedure for adopting unique names, and thereby enabling proces- sors serving a group of entities to adopt a common name for directing network communications to the entire group concurrently). The disclosure describes specific communication applications made possible by this non-unique naming capability.
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Feigenbaum Barry A.
Sachsenmaier Robert
Skowbo James W.
Barrett B.p.
International Business Machines Corporation
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