Patent ID: 8176364
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of assigning a unique IP address to one or more applications running on a host with a host IP address on an IP-based network, the method comprising: preloading a shared library for each one or more applications on said host; and aliasing said unique IP address of the one or more applications, by the shared library, to a NIC IP address on a first host where the one or more applications are running; wherein said unique IP address is unique within the IP address space of said IP network; wherein said unique IP address is assigned to each of the one or more applications by the preloaded shared library; wherein said one or more applications do not require at least one of source-code modification, recompilation, re-linking, or re-configuration to be used with said unique IP address.