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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsWarren Keith Edwards, Mark Webster Newman, Trevor Smith, Jana Zdislava Sedivy, Karen Marcelo, Shahram Izadi, Jason Hong
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A system for enabling components on arbitrary networks to communicate includes a plurality of arbitrary components, such as computers, servers, laptops, facsimile machines, copier machines and cellular telephones, including applications operating on those components, such as word processing or data base applications, connected together by one or more networks that may use the same or different protocols. A method includes a first component, such as a computer, obtaining aggregate objects from other components, such as a laptop or server. Each of the aggregate objects are associated with discovered component objects of the other components, such as the laptop or server. The first component selects at least one of the components associated with the aggregate objects, and invokes universal interfaces associated with the selected arbitrary components to communicate with other arbitrary components.
A method comprising:
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to perform:
A system comprising:
The system as set forth in claim 35 wherein the first component has a query object that is accessible to at least one of the components, the query object having at least one mobile code instruction, which when executed by the at least one component, enables the component to understand and execute a first type of query operator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.