Patent ID: 9438638
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: at a computing system having memory and one or more processors: generating a nonce associated with a port of the computing system; receiving a connection request for the port from a particular computer, the connection request corresponding to a first process; in response to receiving the connection request for the port, establishing a connection with the first process by sending both an acceptance and the nonce to the particular computer; receiving data from the first process via the connection; determining whether the received data includes the nonce; in accordance with a determination that the received data includes the nonce, configuring the connection to make use of an augmented communications service with no modification to executable code of the first process; and in accordance with a determination that the received data does not include the nonce, configuring the connection to make use of a non-augmented communications service.