Patent ID: 6434592
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method, comprising:establishing a communication link between a first application of a first networked computing device and a second application of a second networked computing device to send a message from the first application, the message having a message length; using programmed I/O and not direct memory access (DMA) to receive bytes of information from the first application until the first application has been swapped out by a multitasking operating system or until the entire message has been received; if the first application is swapped out by the multi-tasking operating system before the entire message was received, storing characteristics of the communication link and the message length, sending the received bytes of information across the communication link to the second networked computing device, and continuing to receive bytes of information from the first application when the first application is swapped in by the operating system.