Extending network services using mobile agents

• Main Authors: YATES IAN C, HEDDAYA ABDELSALAM A, MIRDAD SULAIMAN A, YATES DAVID J, LEWIS KEVIN T
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.08.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A technique fulfills service requests in a system of computers that communicate as nodes within a network. The technique involves sending, in response to an initial service request that requests a service provided by a primary server node, a mobile agent from the primary server node to an intermedia...