Patent ID: 6615250
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An agent (10) for communication between a manager (20) and at least one resource (30) of a data processing system, wherein the agent comprises a protocol core (111) created automatically from a formalized description of at least one resource (30), said core (111) comprising in compiled form a first interface (14) for communicating with the manager (20) and a model (11) of at least one resource (30) comprising values of instances of at least one resource (30), said values being accessible by the manager (20) through the first communication interface (14), wherein said agent additionally comprises a second interface (13) having at least one method (12) of access to at least one resource (30) for communicating with the protocol core (111) and updating and/or reading at least one value of an instance of the model (11) of the resource specific to the method (12), and for responding to requests from the core (111) related to the updating of at least one instance value of the model of the resource.