Patent ID: 6442613
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An article of manufacture, comprising;at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing the controlling of tie flow of information between senders and receivers of data, the computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer to initiate, by a first system, a sending of a request, via a link, to a second system, said request having one or more data items associated therewith, wherein none of the one or more data items is sent with the request; computer readable program code means for causing a computer to indicate that a receiver of data is prepared to receive said one or more data items from a sender of data, wherein said receiver is one of said first system and said second system depending on said request, and said sender is the other of said first system and said second system; computer readable program code means for causing a computer to forward, in response to said indicating, said one or more data items; and wherein said link is being used as a channel in that the link is not stopped while said receiver is preparing for said one or more data items.