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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1994
Robert A Curtis, Hudson, MA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A controller for a communication system having a plurality of networks and a plurality of stations communicating with each other by sending messages from a source station to a destination station is disclosed. A plurality of stations may be assigned to a group. A communication history for the stations is determined, where the history corresponds to the messages communicated. The stations are connected into a common network in accordance with the communication history. The communication history corrresponds to a series of packets and is based on a source address and a destination address of each of the packets. A station may have a matrix, the matrix having rows indexed by source system address and columns indexed by destination system address, for storing a value indicating a quantity of information transferred from each station to each other station.