Protocol acknowledgment between homogeneous system
US6182246A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 31, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 30, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 31, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3696
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A testing and validating software program on a host computer is provided having a graphical user interface program, an engine communicating with a target device and responding to command from the graphical user interface, a plurality of test suites having at least one test for testing and validating at least one component of an operating system, and a protocol acknowledgment software package conducive to use with the target device, wherein the protocol acknowledgment software package uses an operating system-generated event handle as a member field of a protocol for releasing an execution thread which is waiting for an acknowledgment message from the target device, and wherein the event handle is placed in a header portion of an acknowledgment message packet and is sent back in the acknowledgment message, and wherein a receiving thread unblocks any send threads of execution which are waiting for the event handle in the acknowledgment message.
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