Patent ID: 7552232
Filing Date: 2009-06-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, in a computer node, for transferring a data message, the method comprising: identifying a pre-defined destination node, the pre-defined destination node being within a plurality of remote computer nodes to which data packets are able to be sent over a data communications network; queuing, in an expedited transmission queue that is separate from a normal data packet queue, a first data packet that is addressed to the pre-defined destination node, wherein the normal data packet queue is used to queue data packets for transmission to other computing systems within the plurality of remote computer nodes, the other computing systems comprising destination nodes that are not the pre-defined destination node; sending, through a communications adapter, the first data packet to the pre-defined destination node; loading a packet descriptor associated with a second data packet into the communications adapter, wherein the loading is concurrent with the sending and the packet descriptor identifies a second destination node that is the pre-defined-destination node; and transferring, in dependence upon the packet descriptor, the second data packet to the second destination node over the data communications network.