Patent ID: 6742050
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for establishing a communication link with a receiver object, wherein the receiver object is an object-oriented programming object, the method comprising:making a first direct method call from a sender object to a session object to indirectly request a channel of communication with the receiver object, the sender object having no reference to the receiver object's location in memory; making a second direct method call from the session object to the receiver object; the receiver object determining whether to grant a channel object to the sender object based on a sender object identifier, the channel object defining an open channel of communication that passes requests from the sender object to the receiver object; if the receiver object determines to grant a channel object to the sender object, the session object receiving a location in memory of the channel object from the receiver object; and sending the channel object from the session object to the sender object.