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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2001
John L. Gargiulo, Floral Park, NY (US);
Paul Gassoway, Levittown, NY (US);
Lingling Liu, Commack, NY (US);
John L. Gargiulo, Floral Park, NY (US);
Paul Gassoway, Levittown, NY (US);
Lingling Liu, Commack, NY (US);
Computer Associates Think, Inc., Islandia, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of identifying a plurality of nodes on a network, includes receiving at at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network a query posed by a caller node determining at the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network an answer to the query, forwarding the answer to the query from the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network to the caller node and receiving, at the caller node, the answer to the query from the at least one of the plurality of nodes on the network and maintaining a list of nodes which responded to the query.