DR. TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, M.D.
Radiology at 15 St, Plano, TX

7149816, Dec 12, 2006

May 16, 2000

09/571140

Adrian G. Port - Downingtown PA, US
Charles D. Spackman - Chester Springs PA, US
Timothy P. Sullivan - Plano TX, US

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

G06F 15/16

709250, 709219, 370463, 370353, 370359

For use in a computer system having a bus coupled to first and second devices and network interface circuitry, a system for, and method of, allowing one of the first and second devices to communicate with a computer network via the network interface circuitry and a computer system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) transport stack circuitry, coupled between the bus and the network interface circuitry, that provides socket-layer access to the network interface circuitry via the bus and (2) channel control circuitry, associated with the transport stack circuitry, that establishes unique channels for allowing peer-to-peer, socket-layer access between the first and second devices and the transport interface circuitry within the computer system.