Patent ID: 8544025

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for transferring data between two applications through a local network connection, comprising: establishing a socket connection between the two applications; responsive to two endpoints of the socket connection being on a host computer, transferring the data between the two applications through the socket connection using a set of socket application program interfaces in a pseudo socket layer, wherein the pseudo socket layer is between an application layer and a transport layer, wherein each socket application program interface in the set of socket application program interfaces has a set of local socket buffers for sending and receiving the data, and wherein transferring the data between the two applications through the socket connection comprises: transferring the data from a user memory space within a first application of the two applications to a send buffer within a first kernel space of a first operating system associated with the first application; transferring the data from the send buffer within the first kernel space to a socket send buffer of a first socket application program interface of the set of socket application program interfaces associated with the first application; transferring the data from the socket send buffer of the first socket application program interface to a socket receive buffer of a second socket application program interface of the set of socket application program interfaces associated with a second application of the two applications; transferring the data from the socket receive buffer of the second socket application program interface to a receive buffer within a second kernel space of a second operating system associated with the second application; and transferring the data from the receive buffer within the second kernel space to a user memory space within the second application.