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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1998
Paul R. Beck, Carlisle, MA (US);
Compaq Information Technologies Group L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention a method is provided for encoding connection ownership information in the sequence number field of an outgoing TCP/IP data packet header. That connection information includes the network layer address of the processor node to which the packet is associated. With such an invention, the connection registration database is only updated after 32 megabytes have been transferred across that connection. Because fewer data packets are being registered in the connection registration database, sufficient time is allowed for registering other connections in background operations. Further, connections that do not send more than 32 megabytes of data never need to be registered.