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Patent No.:

US 8972595 B1

Date of Patent:

Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

May. 28, 2008

Communication apparatus, application communication executing method, and computer program product, configured to select software communication or hardware communication, to execute application communication, based on reference information for application communication

Applicants:

Tomonori Aikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Tomonori Aikawa, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Cooper & Dunham LLP

Primary Examiner:

Aaron Strange

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

H04L 69/16 (2013.01); H04L 63/0485 (2013.01); H04L 69/161 (2013.01);

Abstract

A software communication unit executes a plurality of application communications executed in parallel in a network according to a TCP/IP control by a software. A hardware communication unit executes the application communications according to a TCP/IP control by a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE). A communication allocating unit executes an allocation processing for allocating a hardware communication by the hardware communication unit and a software communication by the software communication unit based on reference information on each of the application communications, for application communications that are simultaneously executed.

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