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Efficient buffer utilization in a computer network-based messaging system

US8145786B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 6, 2008
Grant dateMar 27, 2012
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2030

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2205/108
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Buffering messages by receiving a message from a messaging client, writing the message to a logically-contiguous write-available region of a message buffer starting at a logically next write-available location within the write-available region, updating a head index to indicate a head boundary between a logically last message in the message buffer and a logically next write-available location in the message buffer, defining a packet including the message within the message buffer, transmitting a packet that includes a logically first message in the message buffer, and updating a tail index to indicate a tail boundary between a new logically last write-available location in the message buffer and a new logically first message in the message buffer.

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