Appeal No. 2006-0979 Application No. 08/818,185 The disclosed invention pertains to a bootstrapping technique for distributed object client systems. Representative claims 28 and 33 are reproduced as follows: 28. A program product comprising: (A) an applet, said applet being used to retrieve an object reference for a naming context object from a server apparatus; and (B) signal bearing media bearing said applet. 33. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a server system, said server system comprising: a) at least one object server, said at least one object server including a naming context object; b) a web server, said web server having access to a stringified object reference for said naming context object, wherein said web server downloads said stringified object reference to a web browser when said stringified object reference is requested by said web browser. The examiner relies on the following references: Tang et al. (Tang) 5,793,365 Aug. 11, 1998 (filed Jan. 2, 1996) Hamilton et al. (Hamilton) 6,009,464 Dec. 28, 1999 (filed Oct. 16, 1995) Kessler et al. (Kessler), “JavaOne ‘96 Presentations,” www.javasoft.com/javaone/javaone96/pres/, pages 1-23. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007