Patent ID: 7100171
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of making a remote procedure call (RPC) from a client, the method comprising: installing on a client a first set of RPC structures, wherein each RPC structure in the first set of RPC structures comprises: at the client, comparing a first version identifier representing a highest version of a field of an RPC structure within the first set of RPC structures of the client with a second version identifier representing a highest version of a field of an RPC structure within a second set of RPC structures of the remote computing entity; transmitting a remote procedure call to the remote computing entity, with a first RPC structure of the first set of RPC structures; and before said transmitting, if said first version identifier is more recent than the second version identifier, omitting one or more fields of the first RPC structure from said transmission.