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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
May. 21, 2010
Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bruce Bernard Lowekamp, San Carlos, CA (US);
Skype, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A communication system comprising a plurality of nodes that are capable of establishing a communication connection between two or more clients, the plurality of nodes being arranged in a hierarchy in which a node comprised in one level of the hierarchy is more likely to be reachable by a client trying to establish a communication connection with another client than a node comprised in a lower level of the hierarchy, the communication system being arranged such that, when a client determines that a node is unreachable for establishing a communication connection between it and another client, that communication connection is instead established by a node comprised in a higher level of the hierarchy than the unreachable node.