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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2004
Lance E Olson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Henry L Sanders, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard L Firth, Redmond, WA (US);
Lance E Olson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Henry L Sanders, Kirkland, WA (US);
Richard L Firth, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitating communications over a protocol is provided. The system includes a class factory that holds identifiers associated with determining which, if any, registered protocol object creator should be employed to create a protocol object. The protocol object implements an abstract network protocol base class. The protocol object is employed to abstract details of communicating over a protocol and to provide a byte stream interface to communications occurring over the protocol, while removing protocol specific code from an application program. The method includes creating an instance of a protocol object from a source of registered protocol handlers based on a request to communicate over a protocol and using a base class API to communicate over the protocol through the protocol object.