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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
Dwip N. Banerjee, Austin, TX (US);
Ranadip Das, Austin, TX (US);
Ketan P. Pancholi, Austin, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
Dwip N. Banerjee, Austin, TX (US);
Ranadip Das, Austin, TX (US);
Ketan P. Pancholi, Austin, TX (US);
Venkat Venkatsubra, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Determining availability of a destination for computer network communications that include providing on a caching device a destination availability cache comprising at least one cache entry representing availability of a destination and providing, from the caching device to a source, through computer network communications, information indicating the availability of the destination. In typical embodiments, the cache entry comprises a network address of a destination device and a time limitation for the cache entry.