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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1996
Daniel Dean Heimsoth, Cary, NC (US);
Gary Randall Horn, O'Fallon, MO (US);
Mohan Sharma, Austin, TX (US);
Laurie Beth Turner, Atlanta, GA (US);
Leo Yue Yeung, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An object oriented representation for sending network protocol requests between a first and a second process in a computer network. In an object oriented implementation of a protocol stack a network definition object is used for defining an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application and a network address object for defining the communication endpoint. The protocol stack is formed by layers of instances of a protocol interface class object for defining protocol interface for a protocol layer in the protocol stack and a protocol layer class object for defining the protocol layers in the stack. The network protocol requests are sent in an instance of one of a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class. The client requests are wrapped in the network operation object which contains all the necessary information so the request can be presented to the appropriate protocol layer object in the protocol stack.