A networked computer system contains a number of host computers with servers that provide various functionality to distributed clients on the network. Clients are able to access runtime information about servers on remote host computers, even where the clients have only object references to the...http://www.google.com/patents/US5802291?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5802291 - System and method to control and administer distributed object servers using first class distributed objects 
