Distributed computing system
CA 2046723 C · Owner: Pike, Robert Charles · Inventors: Pike, Robert Charles; Thompson, Kenneth L.
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An operating system which is particularly adapted to heterogenous distributed systems. Entities available to a process running in the operating system are provided by services. Each service models its entity as a set of files. The entity is controlled by performing operations on the set of files provided by the entity. Services other than those provided by the operating system all employ the same protocol specifying operations on files. The only requirement placed on a service by the operating system is that it be able to accept and respond to messages employing the protocol. The files are named and the operating system provides a plurality of name spaces relates each process to one of the …
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- Filed July 10, 1991 and granted November 24, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 10, 2011.
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