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(63) Continuation of application No. 09/698,779, filed on Oct. 27, 2000, now Pat. No. 7,143,182.

Benedicto, Regions: A Scalable Infrastructure for Scoped Service Location in Ubiquitous Computing, 5-1999, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology 1999, pp. 2-109.

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Primary Examiner 4 Kevin Bates
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm 4 Marger Johnson &
McCollom, P.C.

(57) ABSTRACT

A message-processing agent receives an object from a space in a Scalable Infrastructure System. The message-processing agent determines the destination of the object and checks a preference setting for the destination. The message-processing agent then routes the object to its destination as determined by the preference settings, possibly altering the destination in favor of an alternate destination indicated by the preference settings.

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