Patent ID: 7032042

Claim:
A method comprising: if an amount of data requested to be transferred by a data transfer request according to a first protocol exceeds a maximum data transfer amount permitted to be requested by a single data transfer request according to a second protocol, generating one data transfer request according to the second protocol and a data structure, the one data transfer request requesting transfer of a portion of the data, the data structure comprising one or more values identifying, at least in part, another portion of the data, the one or more values in the data structure for providing one or more other values indicating parameters of any data transfer request according to the second protocol; and modifying in at least in part, another data structure associated with the second protocol based, at least in part, upon the one or more values, the another data structure comprising, prior to the modifying, at least in part, of the another data structure, the one or more other values indicating, at least in part, one or more parameters of the one data transfer request.