Patent ID: 6308226
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An inter-object communication system for communicating between objects which are movable between a plurality of sites connected through networking, comprising:a first object which is an object set comprising a first communication object being an object including an access procedure having a function to directly access data and a first relay object being an object including an access process to said data by the access procedure in said communication object, in a first site of said network;a second object which is an object set comprising a second relay object having an access procedure for indirectly accessing said data possessed by said first communication object included in the first object through said network and a second communication object which accesses said data possessed by said first communication object included in said first object by the access procedure, through said network in a second site being a site in said network and different from or identical to said first site;a repository for holding a data set comprising object identifiers for identifying said first and second objects and network address information for indicating the addresses of the sites in said network where said first and second objects exists, in said network;a repository updating unit updating network address information in said data set including the first or second object identifier held by said repository to network address information indicating a site in which the first or second object identifier corresponding to said first or second object which has moved in said network when the first or second object moves in said network; andan inter-object communication route reestablishing unit reestablishing communication between the first or second object which has moved in said network and another second or first object which has communicated through said network based on said network address information registered in said repository.