| CPC G06F 9/45558 (2013.01) [G06F 13/4221 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0024 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method of executing a service within a server computer, the method comprising:
executing the service of a compute service provider using a processor within the server computer;
transmitting a request to a device driver executed by the processor;
using the device driver, storing the request in a base address register of a network interface positioned between the service and a host that executes a virtual machine without transferring the request over a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus; and
using control logic in the network interface, reading the request from the base address register and transmitting the request towards a destination address.
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