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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Marcos N. Novaes, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Inventor:
Marcos N. Novaes, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/56 (2006.01); H04J 3/26 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and arrangements for facilitating multicast communication among at least two nodes in a distributed network configured for point to point communications. Each router node is provided with a first switching arrangement adapted to route a message between a publisher node and a subscriber node in accordance with a first protocol, and a second switching arrangement adapted to route a message between the publisher node and the subscriber node in accordance with a second protocol.