Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Micosystems, Inc.

Robert A Doolittle

James Gregory Hanko

Brian Joseph Gillespie

Randall David Rettberg

Mizanur Mohammed Rahman

Gerard A Wall

Kumar Ramaswamy

Cher-Wen Lin

Aniruddha Mitra

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for configuration using a portable electronic configuration device. The portable device is attached to an unconfigured electronic device. The portable device causes the unconfigured device to send configuration data to a coupled device. The coupled device uses the data to configure the unconfigured device.

Method and apparatus for configuration using a portable electronic configuration device

The present invention is for multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups. The invention uses a set of screen groups and a set of terminal groups to perform a mapping of the screen groups onto the terminal groups. Both the screen groups and the terminal groups have a geometry, which in one embodiment is defined by columns and rows. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group is less then or equal to the number of columns in the terminal group and where the number of rows in the screen group is also less then or equal to the number of rows in the terminal group, a first mapping scheme is employed. In cases where the number of columns in the screen group exceeds the number of columns in the terminal group or the number of rows in the screen group exceeds the number of rows in the terminal group, a second mapping scheme is employed. In one embodiment, the first mapping scheme maps the screen group directly onto the terminal group. In one embodiment, where the second mapping scheme is employed, screen flipping is used to allow a user to navigate within the terminal group where there are more screens than can be viewed at one time using the terminal group.

Multi-screen session mobility between terminal groups

A data packet switching and server load balancing device is provided by a general-purpose multiprocessor computer system. The general-purpose multiprocessor computer system comprises a plurality of symmetrical processors coupled together by a common data bus, a main memory shared by the processors, and a plurality of network interfaces each adapted to be coupled to respective external networks for receiving and sending data packets via a particular communication protocol, such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). A first one of the processors is adapted to serve as a control processor and remaining ones of the processors are adapted to serve as data packet switching processors. The data packet switching processors are each coupled to at least one of the plurality of network interfaces. The control processor receives raw load status data from the external networks and generates load distribution configuration data therefrom. The load distribution configuration data is stored in the main memory for access by the data packet switching processors. The switching processors route received ones of the data packets to a selected one of the external networks in accordance with information included in a header portion of the data packets and the load distribution configuration data. The switching processors perform periodic polling of corresponding ones of the network interfaces to detect a received one of the data packets therein. In addition, the switching processors re-write the routing information included in the header portion of the data packets to reflect the selected one of the external networks.

Computer data packet switching and load balancing system using a general-purpose multiprocessor architecture

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Robert A Doolittle