Patent ID: 6438576
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method for operating a data network, comprising steps of:providing a plurality of computing nodes coupled to the data network, wherein at least one computing node is a requestor of an object and generates a request, at least one computing node is a source of the requested object, and at least one computing node is an intermediate computing node that is interposed between the requestor and the source for forwarding the request to the source and for returning the requested object from the source to the requestor; including requestor-specific capability information with a generated request for an object; including object-specific descriptor information with the requested object; and at the at least one intermediate computing node, examining the requestor-specific capability information and the object-specific descriptor information and making a determination to process the object either entirely or partially for causing the requested object to conform either entirely or partially to the requestor-specific capability information.