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Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2009
Applicants:

Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);

LU Xun, Kirkland, WA (US);

Jason T. Hunter, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);

Lu Xun, Kirkland, WA (US);

Jason T. Hunter, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Systems and methods that supply a global knowledge on what nodes are available in the system, via employing routing tokens that are analyzed by a centralized management component to infer status for the nodes. When nodes fail, the routing tokens associated therewith are acquired by neighboring nodes, and the global knowledge updated. Moreover, upon inferring a failed or down status for a node, a challenge can be sent to a node reporting such failure to verify actual failure(s).


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