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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Applicants:
David W. J. Stringer-calvert, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick D. Lincoln, Woodside, CA (US);
Steven M. Dawson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
David W. J. Stringer-Calvert, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick D. Lincoln, Woodside, CA (US);
Steven M. Dawson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A scalable method and architecture for efficiently locating desired resources within a network containing a plurality of server nodes, each of which hosts or otherwise provides access to a subset of a global resource set. In one aspect of the invention, each of the server nodes are assigned membership in at least two sets, an 'announce' set and a 'request' set.