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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Colin Michael Dancer, Enfield, GB;
Adam Paul Shepherd, Enfield, GB;
Assignee:
Data Connection Ltd, Enfield, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/100 ;
Abstract
In a fault-tolerant system employing software fault-tolerance techniques, automatic reconnection of partner processes after a failure of one or more of the partner processes requires that the partner processes are aware of the redundancy strategy employed by their partners. The present invention insulates the partner processes from the need for this knowledge, and also enables automatic reconnection between partner processes running in different parts of a heterogeneous distributed system.