Patent ID: 11895194
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for performing a TCP (Transport Control Protocol) split operation on a first computer that is along a path traversed from a source machine to a destination machine, the program for execution by at least one processing unit of the first computer that is along the path with a second computer, the program comprising sets of instructions for:
creating, before receiving a connection request from the source machine for a TCP connection to the destination machine, a plurality of pre-established TCP connections with the second computer;
receiving, from the source machine, the connection request for a TCP connection to the destination machine;
selecting a particular TCP connection from the plurality of pre-established TCP connections; and
using the particular TCP connection with the second computer to relay the received connection request from the source machine to the destination machine.