Multiplex communications – Wide area network – Packet switching
Patent
1991-07-17
1993-06-29
Olms, Douglas W.
Multiplex communications
Wide area network
Packet switching
3701101, 395200, 395325, 395800, G06F 1300
Patent
active
052240983
ABSTRACT:
A Transport Layer Protocol Boundary (TLPB) architecture is described which will permit an application program to run over a non-native transport protocol without first generating a protocol compensation package tailored to the transport protocols assumed by the program's application programming interface and by the available transport provider. All transport functions required by the program are converted to standardized or TLPB representations. When a connection between the first application program and a second remote application is requested, the individual required TLPB transport functions are compared to corresponding functions supported by the transport provider. Compensations are invoked only where there is a mismatch. The node on which the remote application program runs is informed of the compensations so that necessary de-compensation operations can be performed before the data is delivered to the remote application program.
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Auerbach Joshua S.
Bird Raymond F.
Britton Kathryn H.
Chung Tein-Yaw D.
Chung Winston W.
Hsu Alpus H.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Olms Douglas W.
Woods Gerald R.
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