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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2003
Hirotoshi Maegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotoshi Maegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A network management method for performing communication between any nodes in a network wherein a plurality of nodes are connected, said network management method characterized in that: a connection request having at least a logical node name of the destination of connection is successively propagated to a node having a possibility of active connection with the node of the destination of connection based on information on nodes in the vicinity of that node stored in each node; a route for actively connecting desired nodes is searched for; and the nodes are made to actively connect and communication between the nodes is made to be performed.