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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
Mickey Henniger, Buchanan Dam, TX (US);
Mickey Henniger, Buchanan Dam, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for transparently resuming the network connection after a reset or reboot. In one aspect a data processing apparatus comprises an operating system unit configured to create and store state information comprising one or more parameters for a network connection between a first computing device and a second computing device; a management interface unit configured to receive a request to reboot the first computing device; and host reset session resumption logic configured to store, in response to the request, the state information in a particular location in a memory of the first computing device, to initiate a reboot of the first computing device, to retrieve the state information from the particular location in memory, and to request resuming data communications over the network connection based on the retrieved state information.