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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2005
James T. Pinkerton, Sammamish, WA (US);
Abolade Gbadegesin, Seattle, WA (US);
Sanjay N. Kaniyar, Redmond, WA (US);
Nk Srinivas, Issaquah, WA (US);
James T. Pinkerton, Sammamish, WA (US);
Abolade Gbadegesin, Seattle, WA (US);
Sanjay N. Kaniyar, Redmond, WA (US);
NK Srinivas, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method to offload a network stack connection is presented. A request, which includes a list of resource requirements from each software layer in the stack, to offload the network stack connection is sent through the stack to the peripheral device. The device allocates resources for the list and sends a handle to each of the software layers for communication with the device. The state for each layer is sent to the device that includes state variables that are classified as a constant, a cached variable handled by the CPU, or a delegated variable handled by the device.