Patent ID: 7966380

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising at least one of hardware and a computer readable storage medium having code executed to implement a first gateway and a second gateway for forwarding a message from a transmitting node to a receiving node and for performing operations, the operations comprising: receiving, by the first gateway, a first message encoded using a first communication protocol from the transmitting node, wherein the first message includes a direct reference to a memory location in the transmitting node or the receiving node; generating, by the first gateway, a second message compatible with a second communication protocol, wherein the second message causes the receiving node to perform an operation with respect to the direct reference in the first message; transmitting, by the first gateway, the second message in the second communication protocol to the second gateway, wherein the receiving node is in communication with the second gateway, and wherein the receiving node uses the first communication protocol; generating, by the second gateway, a third message compatible with the first communication protocol including the direct reference, and wherein the third message causes the receiving node to perform the operation with respect to the direct reference.