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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2002
Applicants:
Raghu Mallena, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Smith, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Raghu Mallena, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Smith, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert English, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Network Appliance, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a system and a method for splicing network connections. In one embodiment, the method maintains first and second connections with first and second network nodes respectively; and selectively splices the first and second nodes based on application header information associated with inbound data packets received from the first node in reply to a request from the second node.