Patent ID: 9450909
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of handling one or more protocol addresses in a network; wherein the network comprises a number of servers K, each server being uniquely identified in the network by a server identifier and comprising a maximum number of a plurality of processing units L; wherein each of the plurality of processing units comprises: a) one hardware address to connect to the network, b) a unit identifier that uniquely identifies the processing unit in the server, and c) a maximum number of hosts M, each host comprising a local host identifier uniquely identifying the host on the processing unit; wherein the method comprises: generating, by a processing unit of the plurality of processing units, a protocol address for a host on the processing unit based on: configuring the processing unit to transmit outgoing messages and receive incoming messages for the host over the network using the protocol address; transmitting the outgoing messages and receiving the incoming messages for the host over the network using the protocol address.