Method for Transparently Connecting Augmented Network Socket Operations

• US 20140280984A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Silicon Graphics International Corporation (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Raymond, Michael Andrew, Warner, Andy
• Granted Patent: US 9,438,638 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/162 involving adaptations of sockets based mechanisms secure socket layer H04L63/168

Abstract

A method at one or more computers having memory and one or more processors includes detecting establishment of a connection between a first process and a second process; determining whether an augmented communications service is available for the connection between the first process and second process; in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is available, configuring the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of the augmented communications service with no modification to the executable codes of the first process and the second process; and in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is not available, configuring the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of a non-augmented communications service.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at one or more computers having memory and one or more processors;

detecting establishment of a connection between a first process and a second process;

determining whether an augmented communications service is available for the connection between the first process and second process;

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is available, configuring the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of the augmented communications service with no modification to the executable codes of the first process and the second process; and

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is not available, configuring the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of a non-augmented communications service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the augmented communications service is transparent to the first process and the second process, and the non-augmented communications service is transparent to the first process and the second process.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether an augmented communications service is available for a connection between the first process and second process includes:

determining whether an initial data sent from the first process to the second process through the connection includes a nonce;

determining whether an initial data sent from the second process to the first process through the connection includes the nonce;

in accordance with a determination that the initial data from the first process includes the nonce and a determination that the initial data from the second process includes the nonce, determining that the augmented communications service is available; and

in accordance with a determination that the initial data from the first process does not include the nonce or with a determination that the initial data from the second process does not include the nonce, determining that the augmented communications service is not available.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein detecting establishment of a connection between a first process and a second process includes:

detecting a request from the first process to connect to the second process;

detecting listening for connection requests by the second process at a port;

generating the nonce;

associating the nonce with the port; and

passing the nonce to the first process.

5. A system, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs stored in the memory including instructions executable by the one or more processors to;

detect establishment of a connection between a first process and a second process;

determine whether an augmented communications service is available for the connection between the first process and second process;

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is available, configure the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of the augmented communications service with no modification to the executable codes of the first process and the second process; and

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is not available, configure the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of a non-augmented communications service.

6. A computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured for execution by one or more computers with one or more processors and memory, the one or more programs comprising instructions to:

detect establishment of a connection between a first process and a second process;

determine whether an augmented communications service is available for the connection between the first process and second process;

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is available, configure the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of the augmented communications service with no modification to the executable codes of the first process and the second process; and

in accordance with a determination that the augmented communications service is not available, configure the connection between the first process and the second process to make use of a non-augmented communications service.