Patent 7647632 was granted and assigned to Arcsight (company) on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system can be configured using configuration objects that have the ability to refer to one another. In one embodiment, the present invention includes such a system having a plurality of objects used to configure the system, each object having a uniform resource identifier (URI), and an object reference table to enable the plurality of objects to reference each other without using URIs.