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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2011
Hartman Van Wyk, Mont Louis sur Loire, FR;
Daniel Popa, Paris, FR;
Hartman Van Wyk, Mont Louis sur Loire, FR;
Daniel Popa, Paris, FR;
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Abstract
Methodologies are provided for establishing peer-to-peer communications between nodes in a tree structured network having plural nodes including a root node. A source node seeking to send a message to a destination node will first request a most advantageous available path from the source to the destination node, and then the root node (or possibly another node within the network that has additional storage resources) will provide a routing path to one or both of the source and destination nodes. Messages may then be sent between the source and destination nodes that may or may not include addressing information in the packet headers without having to request routing information again for additional messages between the same nodes.