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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2008
Milan Vojnovic, Cambridge, GB;
Varun Gupta, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Thomas Karagiannis, Cambridge, GB;
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
Milan Vojnovic, Cambridge, GB;
Varun Gupta, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Thomas Karagiannis, Cambridge, GB;
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Sampling rules for information dissemination are described which may be applied in a system containing a number of nodes arranged into groups. A target address is selected using one of two methods: selection of an address from the entire address space of the system and selection of an address from a part of the address space which corresponds to set of groups of nodes. The set of groups of nodes is updated when information is successfully disseminated to a node at a target address selected using the first of the two methods. Rules to determine which of the two methods are used for any particular selection operation are also described.