Apparatus for parallel client/server communication having data structures which stored values indicative of connection state and advancing the connection state of established connections
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May 26, 1998
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Feb 27, 1995
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A method and apparatus establishes and manages a connection between a computer client system and each of a plurality of server computer systems in parallel. The method includes the steps of (a) providing a plurality of server system data structures, each of the plurality of server system data structures being associated with one of the plurality of server computer systems and having a status indicator that stores a value indicative of a connection state existing between the client computer system and the associated one of the plurality of server computer systems; (b) attempting, for each of the plurality of server system data structures having a status indicator that stores a value indicative of no connection, to establish a connection between the client computer system and the associated one of the plurality of server computer systems; and (c) attempting, for each of the plurality of server system data structures, to advance the connection state between the client computer system and the associated one of the plurality of server computer systems, and updating the status indicator if the connection state between the client computer system and the associated one of the plurality of server computer systems is advanced.
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