Appeal No. 1998-3329 Page 2
Application No. 08/261,518
execution is a user employing a personal computer at home to
run a program on a work station at his office.
A computer executing a process must locate objects stored
therein, e.g., on the computer’s hard drive. Accordingly, the
appellant provides a local computer and a remote computer with
a respective context, i.e., a list of name-to-object
associations or name bindings. A name is resolved relative to
a context. If a process is executed on the local computer,
the context of the local computer naturally includes the
requisite name bindings for locating the necessary objects
stored in the computer.
If a process is initiated by the local computer but
executed on the remote computer, however, the latter computer
needs to locate objects on the former computer. Accordingly,
the local computer transfers its context to the remote
computer. The remote computer then adds necessary portions of
its own context to the first context. The necessary portions
include non-generic object bindings (e.g., for data files) of
the second context. More specifically, the appellant provides
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