Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Computer network monitoring
Patent
1997-08-29
1999-12-28
Meky, Moustafa M.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Computer network monitoring
G06F 1300
Patent
active
060094672
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for dynamically providing a host information about all functions supported by a communication platform provided in a computing network environment. The computing network environment also has a gateway device besides the associated communication platform which can be of any specific type, as well as at least having an initiating host and at least one receiving host that are electronically connected to the gateway device. The apparatus comprises a special function table for storing all possibly available functions that can be provided for all available commercial communication platforms as well as a memory location accessible by said gateway device for storing said special function table. Determining means then will obtain a list of all supported functions provided by said particularly associated communication platform and through the use of a comparison component provides information about all supported functions in the same special function table. All supported functions are then checked by a monitoring component to modify the function table in case of additions or deletions. In this manner any host can obtain an updated list of all available and supported functions at any time and even select an option from the list if desired.
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Ratcliff Bruce H.
Valley Stephen R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Meky Moustafa M.
Neff Lily
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