Patent ID: 7720907

Claim:
A system for supervisor partitioning of client resources in a subnet communications environment, comprising: a plurality of client nodes, each receiving an allocated set of resources determined by a central authority, wherein the central authority assigns resources to a supervisor key associated with each supervisor of the plurality of client nodes; means for partitioning, at each of the plurality of client nodes, the allocated set of resources among one or more applications associated with each of the plurality of client nodes using a local supervisor associated therewith, the local supervisor capable of allocating subsets of the resources allocated to the client node among each of its client applications, wherein the partitioning further comprises each supervisor associating one or more resource keys with one or more resources allocated to the corresponding client node, and assigning the one or more resource keys to the one or more applications; wherein the supervisor keys are configured so as to prevent a given supervisor from partitioning resources not allocated to the client node associated therewith; and wherein, following the partitioning, communication packets are issued from the one or more applications to a resource provider node without inspection by the corresponding supervisor.