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A system and a machine-implemented method are provided. The system may include a platform, in which one or more application domains may be specified. At least some of the application domains may abstract a hardware device. Partitioning of the system into a number of independent applications with fixed public interfaces may provide each application domain with isolation, or protection, from other application domains. Application domains may be specified via programming language constructs. An application, within one application domain, may access a hardware device, or software, in another application domain via similar generic interfaces provided in a managed code environment enforced by the platform.

Hardware abstraction in embedded systems

Flexible attributes are attached to network requests that may be executed asynchronously. Any number of criteria may be attached to network requests. The requests are queued until the associated criteria are satisfied. Once the criteria are satisfied, the request is executed. Applications that make the requests are provided with simple success and failure notifications that they can respond to with various logic. Any type of criteria may be attached to a request. The criteria may be associated with the requests at design time of the application using a graphical user interface.

System and method for applying flexible attributes to execute asynchronous network requests

Knowledge of the computational context of a computer operating environment, for example, awareness of process threads, is used to route IP traffic in the presence of multiple active network connections. An additional protocol may be added to the network layer of an operating system in order to map certain computational contexts to particular network interfaces. Any process with identification parameters associated with a mapped computational context requesting data transfer via a communication network is bound to the network interface previously associated with the computational context rather than an alternate network interface that otherwise might be the default. Further, process threads created by a parent process thread may be caused to inherit the computational context of the parent thread in order to assign traffic to the same network interface. This routing framework may have particular application with respect to multihomed host devices, for example, mobile computing devices.

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