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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2004
Troy David Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas Richard Crowley, Rochester, MN (US);
Kenneth Gerald Linn, Rochester, MN (US);
James Lee Naylor, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph Thomas Writz, Rochester, MN (US);
Troy David Armstrong, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas Richard Crowley, Rochester, MN (US);
Kenneth Gerald Linn, Rochester, MN (US);
James Lee Naylor, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph Thomas Writz, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, program product and method for managing a number of physical connections to a peripheral device. A multipath driver provides a logical connection interface to a client. This interface allows the client to efficiently access the peripheral device over one or more of the physical connections. In so doing, the logical connection interface associates connections with a primary connection, deletes inactive connections from memory, as well as updates and uses a list of active connections to seamlessly route data to the peripheral device.