U (RPC)

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User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

Network transport that uses connectionless datagram sockets and is layered on top of the Internet Protocol (IP).

unbind

Process of terminating the logical connection between a client and server.

unique pointer

Pointer that can be null or point to existing data, whose value can change during a remote procedure call. A unique pointer cannot be aliased. The [ unique] attribute designates a unique pointer. See also full pointer, reference pointer.

Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)

(or GUID) 128-bit value used in cross-process communication to identify entities such as client and server interfaces, manager entry-point vectors, and RPC objects. See also uuidgen.

unmarshaling

Process of unpackaging parameters that have been sent across process boundaries.

uuidgen

Utility program, provided with the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK), that uses a time value and your machine's network card ID to generate UUIDs that are guaranteed to be unique.