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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2007
Applicant:
Mauricio Cortes, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Mauricio Cortes, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2013.01);
Abstract
A replica/cache locator, a method to locate replication tables and caches in an overlay network having multiple nodes and an overlay network. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a network distance between a first node of the multiple nodes in the overlay network and each of the remaining multiple nodes, (2) calculating m clusters of the multiple nodes based on the network distances and (3) designating at least a single node from the m clusters to include a replication table of the first node.