Methods and apparatus for storage and retrieval of name space information in a distributed computing system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A distributed computing environment is disclosed which allows a user at one location to access resources at other locations. Each resource in the distributed computing environment is represented as a hierarchical file system. A user or process has a name space comprised of at least one hierarchical file system provided by a connected resource. The distributed computing environment allows a first processor to invoke execution of a processing task by a remote processor. The first processor transmits a representation of its current name space to the remote processor. The remote processor will execute the processing task on a name space modified in accordance with the name space representation …