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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Trenton Corey Minyard, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 ;
Abstract
Multiple individual messages ( ) generated by a process in response to an event or incoming message are transmitted through a system ( ) in a virtual synchrony environment by assembling the multiple individual messages into a single atomic message ( ) and delivering the atomic message ( ) to all or none of the destination addresses of each of the individual messages. A destination process does not respond to any of the individual messages until the entire atomic message ( ) has been received. Individual messages not intended for a particular process may be removed by a computer or process at the destination.