Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Charles Lawrence Wickham, Iii

Arvind M Murching

Jameel Hyder

In an I/O subsystem comprising device drivers for controlling connection-oriented hardware adapters, a method, computer program product, and system is presented that allows a client to interact with a connection interface provided by an enhanced integrating component. An integrating component allows data transport drivers and hardware device drivers to be &ldquo;bound&rdquo; together to form data communication channels in an arbitrary fashion without knowledge beforehand as to configuration; each are programmed to the integrating component. The connection interface in the enhanced integrating component allows the connection-oriented device driver development to be simplified and result in smaller, less complex device drivers because the driver is no longer required to provide a connection interface. Added benefits include having a standardized method for making connections to many different types of underlying media through an abstracted connection interface that &ldquo;hides&rdquo; many of the media specific details for making connections.

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Charles Lawrence Wickham, Iii