Patent ID: 7752254
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for propagating contexts between a first and second system, the contexts providing information about an environment within which work in the first and second systems is to be performed, the contexts having a hierarchical structure in which a lowest level context is identified as a leaf context, the method comprising: receiving, at the first system, a request to perform work; creating a context hierarchy in the first system, responsive to determining that performing the work involves a parent and at least one descendant executing at the first system, wherein: responsive to determining, at the first system, that a leaf descendant will request the second system to perform a portion of the work, propagating from the first system to the second system the leaf context representing the leaf descendant, wherein the leaf context representing the leaf descendant enables re-creation at the second system of the context information about the leaf descendant only.