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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2007
Applicants:
Prasanth Nalini Sasidharan, Kerala, IN;
Asmita Jagtap, Pune, IN;
Harshad Toke, Pune, IN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04J 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for monitoring a process to determine when an abnormal process exit occurs comprising monitoring events related to the process and detecting a communication connection closing without receiving a notification of an exit event for the process. On detection of an abnormal exit of a process associated with the communication connection, the method and apparatus provide special failover processing including, for example, a TCP connection failover process.