Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method, system and apparatus for multicasting or broadcasting a piece of data from one partition of a partitioned computer system to a plurality of partitions of the system. SOLUTION: When a partition in the partitioned computer system needs to transfer data to more than one partition of the system, the partition first stores the data into a global memory accessible by all partitions of the system. The memory is then marked 'read-only' to ensure that the data is not over-written by the remaining partitions, and the IDs (identifications) of the recipient partitions are passed to a piece of firmware or hardware of the computer system. This piece of firmware or the hardware alerts the recipient partitions that there is a piece of data ready to be read in the memory. Once all the recipient partitions have read the data, the global memory is reverted to a 'read' and 'write' memory. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for transferring data from one partition of a partitioned system to another partition without using a network. SOLUTION: When a first partition needs to transfer data to a second partition, data located in a portion of the first partition of a partitioned memory of the system is marked as read-only data to be indicated to firmware or hardware of the partitioned system. When notified, the firmware or hardware of the partitioned system re-assigns a memory location including the data to the second partition, and passes a pointer to the second partition. The second partition checks to see whether or not the data is actually read-only data. If so, the data is read, or else it is not read. After reading the data, the second partition notifies the firmware or the hardware so that, as a result, the memory location of the data can be re-assigned to the first partition. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and system for performing mSTCP based handover of a mobile device between non-intersecting networks. SOLUTION: In response to detecting a need for a mobile device to transfer out of a first network, requests are sent to a communication endpoint in mSCTP. The first request is to stop transmission to a first address. The second request is to add an intermediary address of a mobility support service designed for receiving any communications already in transmission when the first request is sent. The communication link for the mobile device is then transitioned from the current address at the first network to a second address at a second network. The first network and the second network are non-intersecting networks. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
A host enables any adapter of multiple adapters of the host to concurrently support any VIPA of the multiple VIPAs assigned to the host. Responsive to a failure of at least one particular adapter from among the multiple adapters, the host triggers the remaining, functioning adapters to broadcast a separate hardware address update for each VIPA over the network, such that for a failover in the host supporting the multiple VIPAs the host directs at least one other host accessible via the network to address any new packets for the multiple VIPAs to one of the separate hardware addresses of one of the remaining adapters.
Abstract:
A graphic user interface of a network client (106) includes a stock ticker from a stock server (110) and a news sidebar from a news server (112) over t he IP addresses advertised to the client (106) in its list of mutli-homed addresses from the video server (104) specified under Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). The client accepts real-time data from the sto ck exchange server and the news agency server on the multi-homed IP addresses designated in the association with the video server (104) without knowing th at the data is coming from a different source than the video server (104) . The real~time data feeds from the video, stock and news servers are aggregated o n the client (106) with enhanced speed because the feeds come directly to the client and not via the video server. The operating systems of the home serve r and remote servers utilize SCTP and specialized commands to implement the enhanced speed of real-time data aggregation being streamed to network clien ts without requiring modifications to existing client systems.
Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for effici ently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are dis closed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One p ath MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers ass ociated with the sending host. The other path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to individual destination hosts. When the sending host needs t o send information to a destination, it first consults the MTU table associa ted with individual destination hosts. If an entry for that destination host is found in the table, the sending host uses that MTU value. If not, the se nding host consults the MTU table for the first-hop router on the path to th e destination host and uses that MTU value. If that MTU value is too high, a new entry is made in the host-specific MTU table for the destination host.
Abstract:
A mechanism is provided for identifying a snooping device in a network environment. A snoop echo response extractor generates an echo request packe t with a bogus MAC address that will only be received by a snooping device. Th e snoop echo response extractor also uses an IP address that will cause the snooping device to respond to the echo request.
Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers associated with the sending host. The other path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to individual destination hosts. When the sending host needs to send information to a destination, it first consults the MTU table associated with individual destination hosts. If an entry for that destination host is found in the table, the sending host uses that MTU value. If not, the sending host consults the MTU table for the first-hop router on the path to the destination host and uses that MTU value. If that MTU value is too high, a new entry is made in the host-specific MTU table for the destination host.
Abstract:
A computer implemented method and data processing system for the detection and recovery of a network interface card TCP acceleration offload failure. Responsive to a failure to receive an acknowledgement of a transmission control protocol segment containing a request for a transmission control protocol offload function in a network interface card, the transmission control protocol segment is retransmitted without the request for a transmission control protocol offload function. When an acknowledgement of the retransmitted transmission control protocol segment without the request for a transmission control protocol offload function is received, a counter is incremented which indicates a failure of the transmission control protocol offload function. Responsive to the counter exceeding a predefined number of allowed failures, all requests to the transmission control protocol offload function for the network interface card are stopped.