Managing network sockets

US10348868B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Timothy P. Ellison · Winchester, GB
• Ankur Gupta · Bengaluru, IN
• Sreedhar B. Kodali · Bengaluru, IN
• Xiaoqiao Meng · Mount Kisco, US
• Neil Richards · Somerset, GB
• Sivasakthi Thirugnanapandi · Dindigul, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 2017
• Grant date: Jul 9, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L69/162
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In an approach for managing network sockets, a computer receives a request to create a network socket to transfer data. The computer identifies information associated with the received request, including one or more of: a default network protocol, one or more supported network protocols, ahead of time initialization, a data transfer policy, a failure policy, and a security policy. The computer creates a second level hash map based on the identified information, wherein the second level hash map includes the supported network socket protocols and a connection state. The computer determines a network protocol to utilize associated with the received request. The computer establishes a connection for the network socket over the determined network protocol.