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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2005
Andrew H. Richter, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Belinda L. Thompson, Cary, NC (US);
Andrew H. Richter, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Belinda L. Thompson, Cary, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for enabling connectivity for protocol aware applications across different network topologies can include receiving frames passing between a first network having a first network topology and a second network having a second network topology; inspecting an incoming one of the frames to identify a remote resource in the second network and a device identifier corresponding to the remote resource, and an outgoing one of the frames to identify a socket assigned to a local resource in the first network and a device identifier for the local resource corresponding to the socket; and, transmitting data from a protocol-aware application in the first network to the remote resource in the second network in a protocol consistent with the second network topology, and further transmitting data from the remote resource in the second network to the protocol-aware application in the first network in a protocol consistent with the first network topology.