Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-17
2006-01-17
Coulter, Kenneth R. (Department: 2141)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing
C709S237000, C709S224000, C710S046000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06988140
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for servicing connections by disassociating processing resources from idle connections and monitoring the idle connections for activity is described. In one embodiment, a connection that is being serviced by a processing resource is disassociated from the processing resource when the connection is idle. The connection is handed to a poll manager for placement into one of several poll subsets. A poll thread associated with each poll subset is sends the poll subsets and poll requests to a poll adapter. The poll adapter uses the features of the operating system to monitor the connection for activity, such as by polling the connections to identify any pending events. The approach may be implemented on different operating systems by changing the poll adapter. The poll manager passes active connections to a work queue to wait for servicing. The present invention avoids wasting resources on connections that are idle.
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Bhattacharya Pallab
Chintalapati Murthy
Brokaw Christopher J.
Coulter Kenneth R.
Hickman Palermo & Truong & Becker LLP
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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