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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1995
Christopher W Midgely, Framingham, MA (US);
John W Webb, Sutton, MA (US);
John L Acott, Westborough, MA (US);
Network Integrity, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
An Integrity Server computer for economically providing a stand-in computer, replacing a failed server of a network. The invention provides methods for re-establishing connections between clients and servers, and communicating packets between network nodes, to allow the Integrity Server to stand-in for a failed server without requiring reconfiguration of the network clients when a server fails. In one method, the Integrity Server publishes the name of the failed server, in addition to its normal name, when the failed server becomes inaccessible. In a second method, a first channel accepts network packets addressed to the failed server, and forwards them to a second channel for service.