Patent ID: 6629163
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method in a computer system for processing a message having a sequence of packets, the method comprising:providing a plurality of components, each component being a software routine for converting data with an input format into data with an output format; for the first packet of the message, identifying a sequence of components for processing the packets of the message such that the output format of the components of the sequence match the input format of the next component in the sequence; and storing an indication of each of the identified components so that the sequence does not need to be re-identified for subsequent packets of the message; and for each of a plurality of packets of the message in sequence, for each of a plurality of components in the identified sequence, retrieving state information relating to performing the processing of the component with the previous packet of the message; performing the processing of the identified component with the packet and the retrieved state information; and storing state information relating to the processing of the component with the packet for use when processing the next packet of the message.