Belinda Thompson

US Patent:

7934218, Apr 26, 2011

Filed:

Mar 30, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/393583

Inventors:

Belinda L. Thompson - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 13/00

US Classification:

719312, 719313

Abstract:

A solution for managing interprocess communication is provided. A connection request that identifies another process is received from a first process on a socket. The invention determines if the identified process has a second socket that can be used without transmitting data outside a computing device. If so, then the two sockets are linked, and an in-memory communication session can be managed to implement the interprocess communication. In this manner, two processes executing on the same computing device, each of which supports network communications using sockets, can have in-memory interprocess communication without any knowledge of where the other process is executing or any customization.

US Patent:

20070041400, Feb 22, 2007

Filed:

Jul 26, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/189519

Inventors:

Andrew Richter - Chapel Hill NC, US
Belinda Thompson - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04J 3/16

US Classification:

370466000

Abstract:

A method for enabling connectivity for protocol aware applications across different network topologies can include receiving frames passing between a first network having a first network topology and a second network having a second network topology; inspecting an incoming one of the frames to identify a remote resource in the second network and a device identifier corresponding to the remote resource, and an outgoing one of the frames to identify a socket assigned to a local resource in the first network and a device identifier for the local resource corresponding to the socket; and, transmitting data from a protocol-aware application in the first network to the remote resource in the second network in a protocol consistent with the second network topology, and further transmitting data from the remote resource in the second network to the protocol-aware application in the first network in a protocol consistent with the first network topology.