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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2005
Srinivas Prasad Vellanki, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anthony William Cannon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hemanth Srinivas Ravi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anders E. Klemets, Redmond, WA (US);
Srinivas Prasad Vellanki, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anthony William Cannon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hemanth Srinivas Ravi, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anders E. Klemets, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method in a computer network for automatically detecting a most advantageous protocol for communication by a client computer, said client computer being configured to be coupled to a server computer via a computer network. The method includes initiating a plurality of protocol threads for sending from the client computer to the server computer, a plurality of data requests. Each of the data requests employs a different protocol and a different connection. The data requests are configured to solicit, responsive to the data request, a set of responses from the server computer. Each of the responses employs a protocol associated with a respective one of the data requests. The method further includes receiving at the client computer at least a subset of the responses. The method also includes initiating a control thread at the client computer. The control thread monitors the subset of the responses as each response is received from the server computer to select the most advantageous protocol from protocols associated with the subset of the responses, wherein the most advantageous protocol is determined based on a predefined protocol priority.