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Connection mechanism for energy-efficient peer-to-peer networks

  • US 10,075,519 B2
  • Filed: 01/03/2014
  • Issued: 09/11/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a system of a plurality of processing devices communicatively connected via a peer-to-peer overlay network;

  • wherein each processing device is configured to connect to the peer-to-peer overlay network as a peer node or as a client node;

    wherein a client node is connectable to the peer-to-peer overlay network via a peer node;

    wherein client nodes do not have routing or storage responsibilities;

    the method comprising;

    causing one of a plurality of nodes of a cluster to perform a cluster head role connecting the cluster to the peer-to-peer overlay network, the processing device of the cluster head node thereby acting as a peer while other nodes of the cluster are attached to the cluster head as clients;

    wherein each node of the cluster is associated with a private node identity and a public node identity;

    the public node identity being employed during the creation of a new cluster, in which the cluster only has one node, this node being the cluster head;

    the public node identity of the initial cluster head subsequently identifying the cluster within the overlay network as a cluster node identity;

    wherein the cluster node having the cluster head role enables the other cluster nodes, which are attached to the cluster head as clients, to sleep in an energy-conserving state;

    wherein the processing device, as cluster head role, transfers the cluster head role to another node of the cluster, such that the cluster head role is handed over from one node to another among the nodes in the cluster.

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