Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Chang, Vincent; Schwebke, Thad; Abdo, Ralph; Wu, John; Michel, Theodore L.

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2005202442

Priority 10867198 14.06.04 US

Filing date 6 June 2005

Wipo publication date 5 January 2006

Acceptance publication date 29 October 2009

H04L 29/06 (2006.01) Arrangements, apparatus, circuits or systems, not covered by a single one of groups - characterised by a protocol

G06F 7/00 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled

G06F 7/06 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled - Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers

G06F 9/44 (2006.01) Arrangements for programme control, e.g. control unit - Arrangements for executing specific programmes

G06F 13/00 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units

G06F 15/16 (2006.01) Digital computers in general - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a programme unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programmes

H04L 12/16 (2006.01) Data switching networks - Arrangements for providing special services to substations

H04L 12/26 (2006.01) Data switching networks - Monitoring arrangements