Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20110194463
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | This paper by Prof. Lam provides an overview of generic protocol conversion across two differnet communication protocols including ways to analyze protocol transformation. The current patent appears to be a trivial application of a subset of the same principle to two specific protcol classes. The id number is a simple instance of the state concept. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Print Publication |
| Publication Title * | Protocol Conversion |
| Author | S. Lam |
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| Medium | Journal article |
| Publication Date * | March 1, 1988 |
| URL | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/... |
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Excerpt
Excerpt The state of the protocol is described by the four-tuple (s1,s2,m1,m2) where s1 is the strate of P1 and m1 is the sequence of the messages in the channel from P1 to P2; s2 and m2 are similarly defined. Let G denote the global state space of the protocol. When the protocol is in stateg g, a set of events are enabled; the occurence of one of these enabled events will take the protocol to some state h in G. Events are considered to be indivisible. Only one event may occur at a time. ... |
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The paper describes in Section III an approach that appears indistinguishable from the patent. The paper covers much more than using the id-based system.
The paper describes in Section III an approach that appears indistinguishable from the patent. The paper covers much more than using the id-based system.
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