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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2003
Joseph Wayne Norton, Tokyo, JP;
Gary Hayato Ogasawara, Foster City, CA (US);
Jonan Schwartz, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Stone, Union City, CA (US);
Michael Man-hak Tso, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Wayne Norton, Tokyo, JP;
Gary Hayato Ogasawara, Foster City, CA (US);
Jonan Schwartz, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Stone, Union City, CA (US);
Michael Man-Hak Tso, Saratoga, CA (US);
Gemini Mobile Technologies, Inc., Saratoga, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method of managing a network provides for distributed storage and retrieval. In one embodiment, information such as a text message is stored by calculating an actual destination node based on a subscriber identifier and a current addressing function, which corresponds to a current topology of a network. The message is sent to the actual destination node for storage. Messages can be retrieved by calculating a plurality of destination nodes based on a subscriber identifier and a plurality of addressing functions, where each addressing corresponds to a topology of the network at a particular moment in time. In one embodiment, the addressing functions are hash functions.