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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bahman Zargham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jim Uren, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Shaw, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sylvia Chan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lars Plum, Milpitas, CA (US);
Minoo Gupta, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 ; G06F 1/130 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 ; G06F 1/130 ;
Abstract
A computing environment ( ) includes multiple CPUs ( ), multiple nonshared memory spaces and a means for implementing a select system call ( ). The connection maintenance system is both fault-tolerant and scalable in that agents ( ) exist independently in each nonshared memory space to handle interprocess connections between memory