Patent ID: 6374294
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A computer readable storage medium including a program element for execution by a computing device for implementing an address registry, said program element including:a data structure including a plurality of entries associated to respective software objects, each entry including: a. an address data element indicative of a software object address; b. an address validation data element capable of being processed to determine whether the address data element is valid, said address validation data element being capable of acquiring a first state indicating a valid address data element and a second state indicating an invalid address data element; a processing functional block, responsive to reception of a message from a client software object indicative of a certain entry in said data structure, to: a. process the address validation data element associated to the certain entry to determine the validity of the address data element associated to the certain entry; b. if the address data element is invalid generate and issue to the client object an error message indicating that the certain entry does not contain a valid address data element.