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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Gueorgui Chkodrov, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard D. Hill, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael J. Marucheck, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dave Dopson, Seattle, WA (US);
Mansoor Mohsin, Redmond, WA (US);
Gueorgui Chkodrov, Redmond, WA (US);
Richard D. Hill, Kirkland, WA (US);
Michael J. Marucheck, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dave Dopson, Seattle, WA (US);
Mansoor Mohsin, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed aggregation on an overlay network. Embodiments of the invention utilize tiers of nodes that are cascaded in a layered system. Each tier reduces the size of data by orders of magnitude through pre-aggregation. Thus, high volume streams of messages can be reduced to lower volume streams at large scales, such as, for example, the Internet. No central coordination is used; thus there is no central point of failure or bottleneck. When a node fails, other nodes in the same tier as the failing node automatically take over the responsibilities of the failed node.