Patent ID: 8923302

Claim:
A method for use in an internetwork of interconnected communications networks, comprising: providing a set of attachment registers, each attachment register corresponding to an object from a plurality of objects in the internetwork; storing information in the attachment registers in order to establish a plurality of logical links between attachment registers, each logical link of the plurality of logical links corresponding to a communication link between a respective pair of objects from the plurality of objects, a subset having two or more of the plurality of logical links forming a logical path to a destination object of the plurality of objects; and determining a locator for the destination object by identifying a logical path to the destination object along the logical links between attachment registers corresponding to the identified logical path, wherein the determining a locator includes: sending, from a source object, a locator constructor request to a destination attachment register corresponding to the destination object; at the destination attachment register, adding a name of the destination object to the location constructor request, the name of the destination object being previously registered at the destination attachment register; forwarding the locator constructor request after the adding to another attachment register corresponding to another object closer to a root network in the internetwork than the destination object; and repeating the sending, adding, and forwarding until the locator constructor request is returned to the source object, the returned locator constructor request containing names of objects corresponding to all the attachment registers passed through along the identified logical path by the locator constructor request.