Patent ID: 7913077
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for processing a communication connection request, comprising: determining that a communication connection request has a first identifier indicating that the communication connection request originates with a privileged process; if the communication connection request originates with a privileged process, determining that the communication connection request has a second identifier specifying that a private data area of the communication connection request utilizes predefined fields in a predefined format; processing information in the private data area of the communication connection request in accordance with the predefined fields of the predefined format; and establishing a communication connection using the processed information in the private data area of the communication connection request, wherein: the communication connection request is a communication management request message having both a header in which the first and second identifiers are provided, and the private data area, the second identifier is a service identifier in a communication management request message that specifies that the private data area stores Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) data in the predefined format, and the information in the private data area comprises a source IP address and a destination IP address for a communication connection in predefined fields of the private data area corresponding to the predefined formal the predefined fields being known to the data processing system in response to the data processing system processing the service identifier and recognizing the service identifier as specifying TCP/IP data being provided in the private data area in the predefined format.