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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Chieh-Chung Chang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A communication network having a server which communicates with a switch using a high bandwidth connection. The switch also communicates with one or a plurality of servers at a low bandwidth connection. The client connects to the switch using multiple bandwidth connections. Applications running on the client and server address the client having multiple low bandwidth connections utilizing a virtual internet protocol (IP) address. Devices which communicate using the virtual IP address include a virtual network driver (VND). The VND determines whether the application desires to read or write to a virtual IP address. If so, the VND distributes the data for transmission amongst the multiple bandwidth connections. Similarly, when a network devices receives data written to a virtual IP address, the VND assembles the data for utilization by the application so that the application appears to have received data from a single IP address.