Claims
- 1. A method in a processing system, comprising the steps of:
receiving a lease request from a remote object, the lease request specifying an activation group of objects and a requested lease period; and determining a lease period during which the remote object becomes a member of the activation group.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/729,421, filed on Oct. 11, 1996, which is incorporated herein by reference.
[0002] The following identified U.S. patent applications are relied upon and are incorporated by reference in this application.
[0003] Provisional U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Distributed Computing System,” filed on Feb. 26, 1998.
[0004] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Leasing Storage,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0011-01000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0005] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method, Apparatus and Product for Leasing of Delegation Certificates in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0011-02000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0006] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Leasing for Failure Detection,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0011-04000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0007] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method for Transporting Behavior in Event Based System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0054-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0008] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Deferred Reconstruction of Objects and Remote Loading for Event Notification in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0062-01000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0009] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Methods and Apparatus for Remote Method Invocation,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0102-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0010] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Deterministic Hashes to Identify Remote Methods,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0103-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0011] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and Apparatus for Determining Status of Remote Objects in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0104-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0012] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Downloadable Smart Proxies for Performing Processing Associated with a Remote Procedure Call in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0105-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0013] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Suspension and Continuation of Remote Methods,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0106-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0014] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Multi-Entry and Multi-Template Matching in a Database,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0107-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0015] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for In-Place Modifications in a Database,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0108, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0016] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Typesafe Attribute Matching in a Database,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0109-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0017] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Dynamic Lookup Service in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0110-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0018] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Apparatus and Method for Providing Downloadable Code for Use in Communicating with a Device in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0112-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0019] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Method and System for Facilitating Access to a Lookup Service,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0113-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0020] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Apparatus and Method for Dynamically Verifying Information in a Distributed System,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0114-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0021] U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/030,840, entitled “Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Distributed Computing Over a Network,” and filed on Feb. 26, 1998.
[0022] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “An Interactive Design Tool for Persistent Shared Memory Spaces,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0116-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0023] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Polymorphic Token-Based Control,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0117-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0024] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Stack-Based Access Control,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0118-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0025] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Stack-Based Security Requirements,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0119-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
[0026] U.S. patent application Ser. No. ______, entitled “Per-Method Designation of Security Requirements,” bearing attorney docket no. 06502.0120-00000, and filed on the same date herewith.
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