Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-02-12
2000-09-05
Hafiz, Tariq R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 10, 707103, 707104, G06F 9445
Patent
active
061155497
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for distributing software implements directory services of a network to provide data for controlling a distribution of software. A software object may be any electronic representation of data of any type, from a single byte, to a complex application, or the like. A directory services computer, responsible for maintaining a data store of inter-related logical entities may store a distribution object containing all distribution information associated with a distribution. Distribution information may include a listing of targets, actual entities represented as logical entities in the data store, which are to receive a distribution of a software object. The directory services computer provides instantiations of various portions or an entire data store to be read by various nodes or computers throughout a network or internetwork. Accordingly, an individual computer, such as an individual client or workstation may read information in a distribution object, identified itself as a target of a distribution, and pull the designated software object, completing the distribution to itself. Distribution may also be effected by a workstation from a remote source node to a remote destination node. Authorizations, timing, targets, and software objects, may all be identified in a distribution object.
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Brooks Matthew G.
Gaisford Calvin R.
Heesch Carla M.
Janis Damon V.
Millett Todd F.
Hafiz Tariq R.
Nguyen-Ba Hoang-Vu Antony
Novell Inc.
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