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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1997
Jon Anthony Bell, Raleigh, NC (US);
Edward Glen Britton, Chapell Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention utilizes Virtual Internet Protocol Addressing (VIPA) to enable a host computer to efficiently route TCP/IP traffic across multiple physical links. This is accomplished by associating different applications or application sets with different virtual IP addresses. The virtual IP addresses may be associated with different physical adapters. Since many applications send similar data repeatedly, categorizing application sets and associating them with different physical adapters allows high volume applications to be associated with one adapter while lower volume, interactive data is associated with another adapter.