Patent ID: 6487590
Filing Date: 2002-11-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a network having a network element, a method for controlling the network element from a remote work station connectable to the network, the method comprising the steps of:polling the network element, through employment of an object server, for only particular one or more attributes for which one or more distributed clients have registered interest and only once during an instance of a polling interval regardless of whether the one or more distributed clients comprise a plural number of clients, wherein the particular one or more attributes comprise a subset of a plurality of attributes for the network element, running an object oriented program at the remote work station to control an object associated with the network element, translating interface operations generated by the work station during the running of the object oriented program to corresponding translated interface operations in an object oriented language associated with the object, and connecting the corresponding translated interface operations through the network to the object server to control the object associated with the network element in accordance with the translated interface operations.