Patent ID: 6810431
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
Apparatus which enables a transport protocol executing on a first computer system to be utilized by applications executing on a second computer system which is directly interconnected and closely coupled to the first computer system comprising:an interconnection coupling an input/output (I/O) subsystem of the first computer system to an I/O subsystem of the second computer system and over which data can be transmitted between the first and second computer system independent of a network interface card; an interconnection messaging system executing on the first and second computer systems that provides general purpose transport interfaces between said first and second computer systems; and a distributed transport communications manager executing on the first and second computer systems, said distributed communications manager controlling use of said interconnection messaging system to establish a dialog through which the transport protocol of the first computer system may be used by an application executing on the second computer system in a manner which is transparent to said application, wherein said application utilizes transport protocols executing on a plurality of networked computer systems including said first computer system, each of said plurality of networked computer systems being directly interconnected and closely coupled to said second computer system and using said interconnection messaging system to establish dialogs through which the transport protocols of the networked computer systems may be used by said application in a manner which is transparent to said application.