Appeal 2007-1238
Application 10/037,595
Appellants invented a method and system for controlling the usage of
a system-supplied buffer during the exchange of data between applications
of a server and applications of a client via a network-based socket in a
distributed computing environment. Particularly, the invention entails (1)
allocating the system-supplied buffer to a server application; (2) reading a
packet data received by the server application into the allocated buffer and,
(3) sending the packet data to a client application via the network-based
socket (Specification 5).
An understanding of the invention can be derived from
exemplary independent claim 1, which reads as follows:
1. A method of processing messages in a computer,
comprising:
in response to a request from a server application, allocating a system-
supplied buffer to the server application, wherein the server application is
configured to exchange data with a client application running on another
computer using a network-based socket, and wherein the system supplied
buffer is of a sufficient size to contain the data;
writing the data to the system-supplied buffer,
passing the system-supplied buffer to the network-based socket to
allow the server application to continue processing while the data is sent to
the client; and
sending, by way of the network-based socket, the data from the
system-supplied buffer to the other computer via a network; and
freeing memory consumed by the system supplied buffer.
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