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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2006
Filed:
May. 22, 2001
John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Wesley Mcmillan Devine, Apex, NC (US);
David Anthony Herr, Apex, NC (US);
Mark W. Mcclintock, Raleigh, NC (US);
Raymond E. Ward, Durham, NC (US);
John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Wesley McMillan Devine, Apex, NC (US);
David Anthony Herr, Apex, NC (US);
Mark W. McClintock, Raleigh, NC (US);
Raymond E. Ward, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products provide assignment of ports for connections originated by multiple application instances executing on different data processing systems utilizing a common network address. An indication of available ports for the common network address is provided to each of the different data processing systems executing the multiple application instances. A port identified as available is selected as a port for a connection utilizing the common network address.