Patent ID: 8543680

Claim:
A method for managing object managers in a network, comprising: maintaining object manager information for object managers in a network indicating a device type of devices in the network managed by the object managers and device information providing information on the devices in the network, wherein the object managers have access to the object manager information; sending, over the network, object manager capabilities of a first object manager in a first computing device, including the device type of devices managed by the first object manager; receiving object manager capabilities over the network from one of the object managers over the network; determining, by the first object manager, comprising one of the object managers, from the object manager information a second object manager in a second computing device comprising one of the object managers in the network managing a same device type as the devices managed by the second object manager; communicating, between the first and the second object managers, to establish a migration relationship between the first and the second object managers; and in response to a migration event at the second object manager, accessing, by the first object manager, the device information to manage the devices currently managed by the second object manager.