Patent ID: 7451212

Claim:
A logical port configuration system comprising: a first communication port configured to send a first request message to a server computing element; a monitoring component configured to monitor the first communication port for an acknowledgement message from the server computing component; and a testing component configured to, in response to an acknowledgement message being received, initiate a port test at the first communication port, the port test configured to facilitate interaction between the client computing element and the server computing element, wherein, during the port test, the server computing element communicatively interacts with the client computing element to discover a port status of the first communication port, the first communication port of the client computing element being associated with an application program operative on the client computing element, wherein in response to an acknowledgement message not being received, a determination is made whether a timeout timer has expired, and wherein in response to a determination that the timeout timer has expired, a second request message is sent to the server computing component, via a secondary communications port.