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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2009
Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
LU Xun, Kirkland, WA (US);
Rishi Rakesh Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Gopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Lu Xun, Kirkland, WA (US);
Rishi Rakesh Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that ensure formation of a single ring from a seed node at any given time. A 'bootstrap' phase is included in a node's life cycle, to mitigate adverse affects of split-brain conditions in a network. During such bootstrap phase, if an existing ring is found, the seed node can join the existing ring in a same manner as a non-seed node does. If no ring is detected, the bootstrap phase attempts to elect a seed node to be the 'super-seed node', wherein a new ring can then be formed with such new super-seed node as the first node.