International Business Machines Corporation

Jay Robert Weeks

Mark Linus Bauman

Christopher Thomas Gloe

Bob Richard Cernohous

Steven Simonson

Paul Richard Chmielewski

John Charles Kasperski

Kent L Hofer

Dawn Marie May

John Lee Brooks

Clark Anthony Goodrich

A method, apparatus and computer readable medium is provided for tracking processes using a socket object. The processes are utilized to execute an application program. Initially, a process list for the socket object is created, such that the process list contains a process identifier for a first process using the socket object. If a second process is using the socket object, the process list is updated to include the process identifier for the second process.

Tracking network socket usage in a data communication network

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for acquiring a buffer after data from a remote sender (e.g., client) has been received by a local machine (e.g., server). Because the client data has already been received when the buffer is acquired, the buffer may be sized exactly to the size of the client data. In general, the buffer may be caller supplied or system supplied.

Determining on demand right size buffering within a socket server implementation

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for tracking network socket usage in a data communication network

Method for determining on demand right size buffering within a socket server implementation

Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for handling messages in a client-server environment. In general, computers of a client-server environment are configured with sockets to facilitate network communications. A socket of at least one of the computers is configured to recognize a format of a message to be received from another computer, whereby the socket is configured to handle receiving the message without invoking the application until the message is completely received. In general, the message may be formatted with a length field or terminating characters. In one embodiment, the socket utilizes a record definition to recognize the message format.

Efficient method for determining record based I/O on top of streaming protocols

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for tracking processes

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Jay Robert Weeks