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CA 2190910
A communication subsystem for a digital computer system, which processes application programs under a base operating system (such as the MS-DOS operating system) in a first processor operational mode (such as the V86 mode), and also under an enhanced operating system (such as Microsoft Windows) during a session under a second processor operational mode (such as a privileged or user mode). During an enhanced operating system session, the enhanced operating system makes use of at least some selected elements of the base operating system, in particular relation to the current invention some of the communications drivers. The communication subsystem enables the digital computer system to transfer messages, each comprising a series of characters, over a communications network. The communication subsystem comprises an upper level communication driver and a base lower level communications driver both forming part of the base operating system and a enhanced lower level communications driver forming part of the enhanced operating system. The upper level communications driver and the base lower level communications driver form part of a protocol stack by which the digital computer system, while under control of the base operating system, transmits and receives messages over the communications network. During a message transmission, the upper level communications driver iteratively provides characters of the message being transmitted to the base lower level communications driver for transmission, and while receiving a message the base lower level communications driver iteratively providing characters of the message being received to the upper level communications driver. During an enhanced operating system session, the upper level communications driver and the enhanced lower level communications driver form at least part of similar protocol stack, but characters are transferred between them using multiple-character buffers.
Riches Mckenzie & Herbert Llp
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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