Patent ID: 7356822

Claim:
A system comprising: a transmitting device which transmits by an object carousel an object including a data and a broadcast inter object request broker (ORB) protocol (BIOP) message to reference the data; and a receiving device which receives the object, wherein the transmitting device comprises: a control unit which inserts into the BIOP message information regarding an encoding system used to encode character strings within the message; and a transmitting unit which transmits the object and the BIOP message, wherein the receiving device comprises: a receiving unit which receives the object; and a control unit which decodes the character strings based on the information, and wherein the BIOP message is a BIOP::ServiceGateway message and the control unit inserts the information in a general inter ORB protocol (GIOP) codeset service context within the BIOP::ServiceGateway message, and wherein the character strings are common object request broker architecture (CORBA) strings defined according to CORBA/IIOP.