Patent ID: 6823358
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for managing communications between requester processes and server processes in a data processing network. including:creating a set of dispatcher processes, each have a unique dispatcher process identifier, associating each of a set of requester processes, which communicate with a server process via a common interpreter process having a common process identifier, with a unique dispatcher process of said set of dispatcher processes, wherein each of the set of requester processes executes within the common interpreter process having the common process identifier and wherein each of the set of requester processes shares the common process identifier; for requests sent from any of said set of requester processes via said common interpreter process to a server process which identifies each of said set of requester processes using the unique dispatcher process identifier, routing said requests via the associated dispatcher process; at the respective dispatcher process, attaching the unique dispatcher process identifier to the request and then forwarding he request to the server process; and responsive to receipt by the dispatcher process of a reply to said request, forwarding the reply to the associated requested process via the common interpreter process.