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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2003
Didier Poirot, Plaisir, FR;
Francois Armand, Noisy-le-Roi, FR;
Stephen Mckinty, Theys, FR;
Sun Microsystems, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a distributed computer system comprising a group of nodes, said group of nodes having a first and a second node adapted to act as current monitor nodes, each node of the group of nodes having an identifier and a management layer being informed which node currently acts as the current monitor node. The first and second node each include a protocol server adapted to associate and to send an address to a node requesting an address in the group of nodes, and a memory adapted to store an association address-identifier of a node requesting an address. The protocol server is further capable of requesting the management layer of a node for an indication informing if said node acts as the current monitor node, and attributing, to the current monitor node, the ownership of a list of associations, said list comprising associations of the memory.