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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2012
Applicants:
Chunqiang Tang, Ossining, NY (US);
Rong Nickle Chang, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Christopher Ward, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Chunqiang Tang, Ossining, NY (US);
Rong Nickle Chang, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Christopher Ward, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method to organize nodes into an overlay network and to disseminate multicast messages within this overlay both through an efficient tree embedded in the overlay and through gossips exchanged between overlay neighbors. Regardless of the size of the system, this invention incurs a constant low overhead on each node.