Patent ID: 8234363

Claim:
A multiple element computing architecture configured to operate using a communications protocol enabling dynamic management of objects between a plurality of elements in the multiple element computing architecture, the protocol enabling transmission of a message consisting essentially of: a destination; a source; a message type; a data partition arrangement, comprising: a fixed number of payloads, the fixed number based on the message type; and a delimiter arrangement provided within the message, the delimiter arrangement separating data partitions in the data partition arrangement; wherein the communications protocol enables one element to prepare requesting messages with one destination, one source, one message type and optional associated payload, the communications protocol employs escape sequences, and the one element is configured to receive the requesting message and process the message, and wherein the multiple element architecture comprises at least one hardware element; wherein delimiters are provided between the destination, the source, the message type and optional associated payload, and at an end of the message; wherein a special delimiting character is used to delimit a lowest level of data partitions; wherein an immediate upper level data delimiter of any existing level of data is a combination of an existing level delimiter followed by the special delimiting character.