Patent ID: 7035931
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus providing a location service for locating at least one instantiation of a resource on a computer network, the apparatus comprising: an interface for communicating with the location service; a pluggable back-end database for storing locations of the instantiations of the resource selected from a plurality of pluggable back-end databases, each of the plurality of pluggable back-end databases capable of processing a request for a location of an instance of a resource via the interface; means for querying the pluggable back-end database for at least one host storing the instantiation of the resource and specifying a filter for the pluggable back-end database; and means for returning a record in the pluggable back-end database through the interface, the record including the host storing the resource instantiation that satisfies the filter and an attribute associated with the resource instantiation.