International Business Machines Corporation

Tein-Yaw D Chung

Soumitra Sarkar

Kathryn Heninger Britton

Diane Phylis Pozefsky

James P Gray

Joshua S Auerbach

Harold D Dykeman

Willibald A Doeringer

John H Wilson

Allan K Edwards

Raymond F Bird

Roger D Turner

Johny Mathew

Yue T Yeung

Winston W Chung

A Transport Layer Protocol Boundary (TLPB) architecture is described which will permit an application program to run over a non-native transport protocol without first generating a protocol compensation package tailored to the transport protocols assumed by the program's application programming interface and by the available transport provider. All transport functions required by the program are converted to standardized or TLPB representations. When a connection between the first application program and a second remote application is requested, the individual required TLPB transport functions are compared to corresponding functions supported by the transport provider. Compensations are invoked only where there is a mismatch. The node on which the remote application program runs is informed of the compensations so that necessary de-compensation operations can be performed before the data is delivered to the remote application program.

Compensation for mismatched transport protocols in a data communications

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Tein-Yaw D Chung