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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Lu Xun, Redmond, WA (US);
Alex Wun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gopala Krishna R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rishi Rakesh Sinha, Bothell, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
Determining if a new federation should be formed. A method includes a voter node determining that it has sufficient votes to form a new federation. The method further includes determining that no node existing in a previous federation already has a quorum of valid global tickets. Each global ticket indicates that a node agrees that a federation should continue to exist. As a result, the voter node forms a new federation.