Patent ID: 7519718

Claim:
An inter-process communications protocol configuration system comprising: one or more protocol stack components stored in a memory; a mapping of server-side protocol stack components to client-side protocol stack components in a server-side protocol stack by a server; a listing of dependent protocol stack components of said server-side protocol stack components in said server-side protocol stack based upon said mapping by said server; and a publishable interface to said listing, wherein said mapping comprises: a set of linkages between protocol stack components of said server-side protocol stack and corresponding protocol stack components required to exist in an associated client-side protocol stack, and a set of attributes for selected ones of said corresponding protocol stack components, said listing is a reverse listing by said server comprising a reverse ordered list of said dependent protocol stack components of said server-side protocol stack components in said server-side protocol stack based upon said mapping, and said publishable interface is a native directory interface to at least one object incorporating said listing.