Patent Document ID: 5455951
Application ID: 08094681

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for enabling an object-oriented application, including object-oriented statements to access a procedural operating system including procedural functions saved as executable program logic which are called to access services provided by said procedural operating system to enable communications between a host computer and a second computer, comprising: (a) computer; (b) a memory component in said computer; (c) a code library, stored in said memory component, comprising: means for storing said executable program logic in an object-oriented class library; means for interfacing said object-oriented application to said procedural operating system utilizing said executable program logic; (d) means, in said computer, for processing object-oriented statements by inserting said executable program logic which corresponds to said object-oriented statements into said object-oriented application to access said host computer; and (e) said host computer comprising a plurality of processors operating in parallel, and wherein one of said plurality of processors contains said means for processing object-oriented statements by inserting said executable program logic which corresponds to said object-oriented statements into said object-oriented application to interface said procedural operating system and facilitate communication with said second computer.

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Claim 4:
4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said code library comprises an object-oriented class which includes as data a protocol for accessing a name port in each of the plurality of processors, and methods for utilizing said name port to obtain information relating to each of said plurality of processors.