Patent ID: 6961938

Claim:
In a system for remotely managing a plurality of network devices wherein each device is managed with a respective unsigned device applet launched from its device, an apparatus comprising a plurality of unsigned applets, including a device applet, operating within a same shared environment, the plurality of unsigned applets comprising: a recipient applet comprising a model object of a non-graphical user interface class and a model adapter object of a graphical user interface class, the model adapter object being for unpacking information represented as one or more graphical user interface objects into a form usable by the model object; a transmitting applet comprising an initialization controller for obtaining a reference to the recipient applet and for obtaining a reference to the model adapter object, and a data handler comprising access to the reference to the model adapter object, the data handler representing information as one or more graphical user interface class objects and providing access to the one or more graphical user interface class objects to the model adapter object using the reference to the model adapter object; and the transmitting applet and the recipient applet being launched from different devices and being communicatively coupled within the shared environment.