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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Adrian D. Dick, Hursley, GB;

Brian C. Homewood, Hursley, GB;

Christopher Matthewson, Hursley, GB;

Craig H. Stirling, Hursley, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/927 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/803 (2013.01); H04L 47/78 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product that includes a processor assigning a network connection to an application, based upon the application requesting the network connection from a pool of network connections for connecting applications to a network resource, the assigned network connection for communicating a message with the network resource. The processor replaces the assigned network connection in the pool with a placeholder comprising configuration data of the assigned connection. The processor determined a period of inactivity of the assigned network connection, and the processor returns the assigned network connection to the pool, based upon the period reaching a defined threshold of inactivity.


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