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Managing connections through an aggregation of network resources providing offloaded connections between applications over a network

  • US 20060129676A1
  • Filed: 12/14/2004
  • Published: 06/15/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of establishing offloaded connections over a network between requesting applications running on client nodes and server applications running a server node, the connections established through an aggregated plurality of network resources comprising the server node, each of the aggregated plurality operable to provide offloaded connections over the network and each assigned to a unique private IP address, said method comprising:

  • generating connect queries on behalf of requesting applications, each of the connect queries specifying one of the server applications using a first endpoint tuple, the first endpoint tuple comprising one of one or more IP addresses publicly identifying the server node on the network and a first port number uniquely identifying the server application;

    obtaining a set of bypass endpoint tuples translated from the first endpoint tuple specified in the connect query, each of the set comprising a different one of the assigned private IP addresses; and

    issuing a connect request over the network specifying a selected one of the obtained set of bypass endpoint tuples as the destination transport address for the connection.

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