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Patent No.:

US 7254638 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2000

Method and apparatus for identifying slow links and for providing application-based responses to slow links in a distributed computer network

Applicants:

Lorin Evan Ullmann, Austin, TX (US);

Ching-jye Chang, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Lorin Evan Ullmann, Austin, TX (US);

Ching-Jye Chang, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Attorneys:

Jeffrey S. LaBaw

Anne V. Dougherty

Primary Examiner:

Nathan J Flynn

Assistant Examiner:

Haresh Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method for programming applications to respond to slow links. The programming may be done during configuration of a system, or it may be implemented dynamically in response to a recently-detected change in network performance. The method includes the steps of continually monitoring links in a network, periodically calculating runtime link speeds for the links, and identifying slow links based on the monitoring and calculating. The method may additionally include the preliminary step of predefining so-called original link speed factors for the links. Runtime determination of runtime link speed factors for the respective links and comparison of the original link speed factors to the real-time link speed factors will then be used for the identification of slow links. A variety of application responses may be programmed as slow link responses.

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Ullmann, Lorin. (2007). Method and apparatus for identifying slow links and for providing application-based responses to slow links in a distributed computer network (U.S. Patent No. 7254638). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7254638

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