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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1992
Kathryn H Britton, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Tein-Yaw D Chung, Taoyuan, TW;
Willibald A Doeringer, Langnau, CH;
Douglas H Dykeman, Reuschlikon, CH;
Allan K Edwards, Raleigh, NC (US);
Johny Mathew, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Diane P Pozefsky, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Soumitra Sarkar, Durham, NC (US);
Roger D Turner, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a general solution to the problem address incompatibility between application programs and transport services. The invention may be embodied in a method for mapping the application program address (program address) to the transport services address (transport Provider address). According to the method, a program address is registered in the network so that it becomes available to other programs that understand the address, even if they are running over a transport protocol that does not understand the address format. When a request is made that a connection be established between a program and a program partner or that a datagram be sent therebetween, the program address is mapped to the transport Provider address (if necessary). The program address is then conveyed to the program partner so that it knows who it is talking to.