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Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2014
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Narendra Madanapalli, Bangalore, IN;

Arunkumar Kambivelu, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/541 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for utilizing synchronous APIs which normally block callers until a result is returned. In particular, the techniques described herein enable an application or other programming construct to boost performance by executing synchronous APIs (e.g., long running time APIs) within a proxy container rather than executing the synchronous APIs in the context of the application itself. Since the proxy is a separate process or thread, the caller application is thereby released from waiting for the synchronous API call and may proceed with other processing instead of waiting for the synchronous API to return. The application may then monitor the proxy to determine whether a result has been received, such as by periodically polling the proxy.


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