公开(公告)号：US6115549A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-05

申请号：US798837

申请日：1997-02-12

申请人： Damon V. Janis ,  Todd F. Millett ,  Calvin R. Gaisford ,  Matthew G. Brooks ,  Carla M. Heesch

发明人： Damon V. Janis ,  Todd F. Millett ,  Calvin R. Gaisford ,  Matthew G. Brooks ,  Carla M. Heesch

IPC分类号： G06F9/445 ,  G06F9/46

CPC分类号： G06F8/61 ,  G06F9/465 ,  Y10S707/99944 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： An apparatus for distributing software implements directory services of a network to provide data for controlling a distribution of software. A software object may be any electronic representation of data of any type, from a single byte, to a complex application, or the like. A directory services computer, responsible for maintaining a data store of inter-related logical entities may store a distribution object containing all distribution information associated with a distribution. Distribution information may include a listing of targets, actual entities represented as logical entities in the data store, which are to receive a distribution of a software object. The directory services computer provides instantiations of various portions or an entire data store to be read by various nodes or computers throughout a network or internetwork. Accordingly, an individual computer, such as an individual client or workstation may read information in a distribution object, identified itself as a target of a distribution, and pull the designated software object, completing the distribution to itself. Distribution may also be effected by a workstation from a remote source node to a remote destination node. Authorizations, timing, targets, and software objects, may all be identified in a distribution object.

摘要翻译： 用于分发软件的装置实现网络的目录服务，以提供用于控制软件分发的数据。 软件对象可以是从单个字节到复杂应用等的任何类型的数据的任何电子表示。 负责维护相关逻辑实体的数据存储的目录服务计算机可以存储包含与分发相关联的所有分发信息的分发对象。 分发信息可以包括目标，在数据存储中表示为逻辑实体的实体，其将被接收软件对象的分发。 目录服务计算机提供通过网络或互联网络由各种节点或计算机读取的各个部分或整个数据存储的实例。 因此，诸如单个客户端或工作站之类的个人计算机可以读取分发对象中的信息，将其自身识别为分发的目标，并且拉取指定的软件对象，完成分配给自身。 分发也可以由工作站从远程源节点到远程目标节点实现。 授权，定时，目标和软件对象都可以在分发对象中标识。