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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1989
James L Ashton, Cary, NC (US);
Robert T Gibbs, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael F Gierlach, Raleigh, NC (US);
James P Gray, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Jeffrey G Knauth, Raleigh, NC (US);
Guy Platel, La Gaude, FR;
Stuart W Pretzman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Lawrence E Troan, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a communication system which includes a number of host systems each communicating via sessions with other devices over different connections and in which the sessions assigned to a failed connection are suspended for a first and second time period and non-destructively moved to an alternate connection when a unique command is issued by one of the host systems and received by a control unit involved in the failed connection.