Method and system for buffering messages in an efficient but largely undivided manner
US6014727A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 11, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F5/06
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention relates, in one embodiment, to a method in a computer network having a server computer coupled to a client computer for exchanging a message from the client computer to the server computer. The method includes receiving at the server computer a first data portion associated with the message from the client computer. The method further includes allocating a first memory space in a memory of the server computer for buffering the first data portion. If a second data portion associated with the message is received at the server computer from the client computer, the method also includes writing the first memory space to a nonvolatile memory of the server computer, thereby permitting the first memory space to be unallocated, and allocating a second memory space in the memory of the server computer for buffering the second data portion, the second memory space being larger than the first memory space.
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