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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2007
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas Lotze, College Park, MD (US);
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas Lotze, College Park, MD (US);
Abstract
A method of reliably communicating via a computer network by identifying hub nodes in the network, identifying leaf nodes in the network, communicating from hub nodes to corresponding leaf nodes, reporting from leaf nodes to corresponding hub nodes, communicating between hub nodes, re-designating a leaf node as a hub node if the leaf node identifies a region of the network not known by a hub node, re-designating a hub node as a leaf node if the hub node becomes redundant, re-designating a leaf node as a hub node if the leaf node loses connectivity to its hub node, and returning to the third step for additional processing.