Patent ID: 9544202
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for handling connection requests comprising: receiving, by an operating system (OS), a first request from an application to create a first connection, determining, by the OS, that the application is authorized to create the first connection, creating, by the OS, the first connection targeting the application in response to the determination that the application is authorized to create the first connection; mapping, in response to the determination that the application is authorized to create the first connection, the first connection to the first SLA in the first SLA data structure; receiving first incoming data targeting the first connection identifier from a network; processing, by a network protocol stack on the OS, the first incoming data according to the first SLA in the first SLA data structure to obtain first processed incoming data; and providing, by the OS, the first processed incoming data to the application.