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Gleb Kholodov

Yi Zhang

Yu Meng Li

Ning Wang

Carl Melvin Ellison

Dong Zhang

Dong Guo

Tore L Sundelin

Larry Zhu

Yong Gang Mao

Shang Tao Zhou

Giok Hong Khoo

Message handshaking and integration may be provided. A message may be created by a client in a first format. The client may determine whether a server in communication with the client is operable to deliver the message in a second format. If so, the client may provide the message, in the first format, to the server for delivering to at least one recipient in the second format.

Text message handshaking and integration

Each member of a group contributes to and calculates a new shared value. A distributed shared value algorithm is used to reach unanimous agreement on a shared value, such that every group member can use the new shared value as soon as it is changed. The distributed shared value agreement methodology operates without the selection of a leader. Each group member performs the distributed shared value agreement methodology and computes the new shared value using one or more of the contributions from the group members in such a way that no one member coerces the resulting shared value.

Distributed algorithm for changing a shared value

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