A system for generating globally unique identifiers for objects in a distributed object oriented database. In one embodiment the system comprises at least two processors connected by means of a network to a processor executing a server process which provides globally unique identifiers for objects throughout...http://www.google.de/patents/US5522077?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5522077 - Object oriented network system for allocating ranges of globally unique object identifiers from a server process to client processes which release unused identifiers
