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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 09, 1997
Michael Boe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Derek W Bolton, Balmain, AU;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
When a TN3270 client (14) uses the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ('TCP/IP')to initiate contact with a TN3270 server (18) to obtain access to an applications program running on a host (12) with which the server (18) employs the Systems Network Architecture ('SNA')protocol to communicate, the server's SNA physical-unit process sends the host's systems service control point an SNA NMVT message that includes a physical-location subfield in a product-set-attributes subvector of a product-set-ID vector. The physical-location subfield includes the client's IP address and TCP port number so that host management applications can determine individual clients' usages without interrupting communications with the server.