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Primary Examiner * Carl Colin

Assistant Examiner * Catherine ThiaW

(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

(57) ABSTRACT

A method is described that involves establishing a connection over a shared memory between a connection manager and a Worker node. The shared memory is accessible to multiple Worker nodes. Then sending, from the connection manager to the Worker node over the connection, a first request containing a method call to a remote object on the Worker node. Also sending, from the connection manager to the Worker node over the connection, a second request containing a second method call to a second remote object on the Worker node.

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