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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
John K. Hadland, Omaha, NE (US);
John K. Hadland, Omaha, NE (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A protocol converter includes a computer-readable storage medium that includes operational instructions that, when executed by a processor, allows communications between a first node and a second node which use different communications protocols. In a particular embodiment, the computer-readable storage medium includes operational instructions to use a first facility to receive first data from a first node, where the first data complies with a first protocol, and where the first facility supports at least one of a first link layer and a first line layer communications protocol. The computer-readable storage medium includes operational instructions that spawn a utility in response to receiving the first data. The computer-readable storage medium also includes operational instructions that use the utility to translate the first data into second data in a second protocol and that use a second facility to send the second data to a second node.