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Object oriented representation of network requests in a client server model
Assignee: International Business Machines Corp
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Filing: 1996-03-08
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Granted: 1999-08-17
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Expires: 2016-03-08
Abstract
Abstract An object oriented representation for sending network protocol requests between a first and a second process in a computer network. In an object oriented implementation of a protocol stack a network definition object is used for defining an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application and a network address object for defining the communication endpoint. The protocol stack is formed by layers of instances of a protocol interface class object for defining protocol interface for a protocol layer in the protocol stack and a protocol layer class object for defining the protocol layers in the stack. The network protocol requests are sent in an instance of one of a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class. The client requests are wrapped in the network operation object which contains all the necessary information so the request can be presented to the appropriate protocol layer object in the protocol stack.
Inventors
- 👤 Daniel Dean Heimsoth
- 👤 Gary Randall Horn
- 👤 Mohan Sharma
- 👤 Laurie Beth Turner
- 👤 Leo Yue Tak Yeung
Bibliographic Details
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US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 10:44
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04L; H04L9/00; H04L9/40; H04L69/00; H04L69/30; H04L69/32; H04L69/03
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
141 words
A computer network for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process, using a plurality of object oriented objects characterized by having a set of methods and data, the network comprising: a network definition object for creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client process; a network address object for binding an address to the communication endpoint; a protocol interface class object for creating a protocol interface for a protocol layer in a protocol stack; a protocol layer class object for creating a protocol layer object; a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a respective method in the protocol interface class; and means responsive to receipt of a network protocol request for deriving a network operation object from a selected network protocol class to send to the server process over the network.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
141 words
A computer network for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process, using a plurality of object oriented objects characterized by having a set of methods and data, the network comprising: a network definition object for creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client process; a network address object for binding an address to the communication endpoint; a protocol interface class object for creating a protocol interface for a protocol layer in a protocol stack; a protocol layer class object for creating a protocol layer object; a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a respective method in the protocol interface class; and means responsive to receipt of a network protocol request for deriving a network operation object from a selected network protocol class to send to the server process over the network.
Claim 3
Independent Claim
134 words
A method for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process in a computer network using a set of objects, each object having an integrated set of methods and data, the method comprising the steps of: creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application; creating a set of protocol interface objects from a protocol interface class object for protocol layers in a protocol stack; creating a set of protocol layer objects from a protocol layer class object for the protocol layers; selecting among a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class to derive a network operation object for a network protocol request; and sending the network operation object between the first and second processes over the computer network.
Claim 4
Independent Claim
134 words
A method for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process in a computer network using a set of objects, each object having an integrated set of methods and data, the method comprising the steps of: creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application; creating a set of protocol interface objects from a protocol interface class object for protocol layers in a protocol stack; creating a set of protocol layer objects from a protocol layer class object for the protocol layers; selecting among a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class to derive a network operation object for a network protocol request; and sending the network operation object between the first and second processes over the computer network.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method as recited in claim 2 further comprising the steps of: deriving the network operation object from the selected network operation class; and flattening the network operation object prior to the sending step.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
51 words
The method as recited in claim 3 further comprising the steps of: receiving the network operation object at a server; unflattening the network operation object at the server; and executing a method in the network operation object which calls a method in a protocol object in a server side protocol stack.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The method as recited in claim 3 further comprising the step of setting a location to client for the network operation object to indicate that the network operation object was created at the client.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
71 words
The method as recited in claim 4 further comprising the steps of: creating an access network operation object; creating a client side stackhead object to manage communication to the communication endpoint; sending the access network operation object to the server; and creating a server side stackhead object to represent the communication endpoint at the server; wherein the stackhead objects are created at least in part by the access network operation object.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
49 words
The method as recited in claim 6 further comprising the steps of: creating a server side protocol stack for the communication endpoint composed of protocol layer and protocol interface layer objects; and storing pointers to the objects in the server side protocol stack in the server side stackhead object.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method as recited in claim 7 further comprising the steps of: storing an ID for the server side stackhead object in a table at the server; and sending the ID to the client side stackhead object.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
153 words
A computer program product in a computer readable medium for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process using a set of objects which have both methods and data, the product comprising: a network definition object for creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application; a network address object for binding an address to the communication endpoint; a protocol interface class object for creating a protocol interface for a protocol layer in a protocol stack; a protocol layer class object for creating a protocol layer object; a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class for embodying a set of network protocol requests based on the methods; and means responsive to receipt of a network protocol request for deriving a network operation object from a selected network protocol class to send to the server process over the network.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
153 words
A computer program product in a computer readable medium for sending network protocol requests between a client and a server process using a set of objects which have both methods and data, the product comprising: a network definition object for creating an interface to a communication endpoint for a client application; a network address object for binding an address to the communication endpoint; a protocol interface class object for creating a protocol interface for a protocol layer in a protocol stack; a protocol layer class object for creating a protocol layer object; a set of network operation classes each of which correspond to a method in the protocol interface class for embodying a set of network protocol requests based on the methods; and means responsive to receipt of a network protocol request for deriving a network operation object from a selected network protocol class to send to the server process over the network.
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