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Abstract

A network communication apparatus comprises an application, a plurality of communication sessions, a transport manager, and buffer logic. The application is configured to initiate a session request specifying a set of receiving units and a transport protocol. The transport manager is configured to allocate at least one of the communication sessions to the application in response to the session request. The transport manager is further configured to provide a session identifier that identifies the allocated session. The transport manager configures, based on the session request, the allocated session to communicate with the specified set of receiving units via the specified protocol. The buffer logic is configured to store data produced by the application into the shared memory accessible to each of the communication sessions and to associate the stored data with the session identifier. The allocated session is configured to retrieve the data based on the session identifier and to transmit the retrieved data through a network to the specified set of receiving units via the specified protocol.

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