Enhanced network communication

Patent 6324582 Issued on November 27, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

October 20, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Sitara Networks, Inc.

Application

No. 176065 filed on 10/20/1998

US Classes:

709/230, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTING709/228Session/connection parameter setting

Examiners

Primary: Maung, Zarni

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Foreign Patent References

0 613 274 A2 EP. 08/20/1994
0 751 656 A2 EP. 01/20/1997

International Class

G06F 015/16

Foreign Application Priority Data

1997-07-01 WO

Abstract

A communication system in which client and server communication systems are coupled over a data network. A request to communicate with one of the server communication systems is accepted and based on an identification of the server communication system in the request, one of a set of transport layer protocols is selected for communication between the client and server systems. The set of transport layer protocols can be determined by retrieving information from a directory service computer, such as an Internet Domain Name Server (DNS), where the address of the directory service computer is related to the identification of the server communication system. In addition, the server communication system can include an address translation table that associates a network address provided by a client communication system with local network addresses of server computers. The server communication system selects one of the server computers in response to a request from the client communication system and passes communication between the client system and the selected server computer.

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