Patent ID: 7756961

Claim:
A hardware device for creation and management of socket information, the hardware device comprising: a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transmission processor for processing commands on requests for creation and elimination of a socket of a predetermined network program in response to the requests for creation and elimination of a socket; a TCP reception processor that issues a search command signal for a corresponding socket identification (ID) when a new packet is received; a socket management unit for creating and eliminating a socket ID in accordance with a command from the TCP transmission processor, and searching the socket ID, creating a socket ID search success mark, and storing the socket ID search success mark and the searched socket ID in a register with the search command from the TCP reception processor; and a memory unit for storing the socket information under the control of the TCP transmission processor, and providing the socket information to the TCP reception processor wherein the TCP reception processor reads the searched socket ID from the register and calculates, using the searched socket ID, a region of the memory unit that stores the socket information.