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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:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gabriel E Montenegro, Fremont, CA (US);
Steven J Drach, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ho Y Wong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39518501 ; 39518401 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus allowing a system interfaced with a network to continue functioning in a diminished capacity, even when the system is temporarily disconnected from the network. Unmodified applications running on the system which initiate a network-related operation during system isolation are coerced into a fast-fail behavior by fast-fail mechanisms residing in the system's network layer kernel modules.