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Multiprocess computer system

  • US 7,039,718 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2001
  • Issued: 05/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer system comprising at least two processes P1, P2, . . . Pi, . . . PN connected by a network, wherein each process is executed by a piece of hardware equipped with an operating system, wherein a process comprises:

  • a library software layer used by the operating system to access a program for activation of a communications protocol associated with an input/output of the hardware;

    an intermediate software layer comprising an inter-process communications process associated with a communications channel; and

    a multiplexer encapsulated in the library software layer and configured to multiplex a communication channel of a process Pi with communication channels of the other processes P1, P2, . . . PN, data exchanges between processes being made in a form of data flows, a communication channel between two processes Pi, Pk being activated by the multiplexers of the two processes Pi, Pk, upon a request to activate the communication channel between the two processes Pi, Pk transmitted by one of the two processes Pi, Pk.

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