Patent ID: 7489707
Filing Date: 2009-02-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A dynamic protocol framework system comprising: a registry containing object-oriented elements, each element corresponding to a resource protocol component available to the system; a configurator unit for building two or more candidate protocol stacks from the object-oriented elements based on protocol specifications and for building and configuring a functional protocol stack from one of the candidate protocol stacks, wherein protocol components in the functional protocol stack are interconnected via reconfigurable connector elements, wherein each connector element is reconfigurable to enable cloning and merging of connector elements, wherein two connector elements merge by maintaining respective existing connections to protocol components on respective outer ends of the two connector elements, by disconnecting respective connections on their respective inner ends of the two connector elements to a same inner protocol component, and merging into one connector element; and a synchronization manager monitoring the building and re-configuration of protocol stacks for consistency with the protocol specifications and monitoring for compatibility and interoperability of protocol stacks of end-to-end communicating processes.