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Scalable, fault tolerant notification method

  • US 20050086469A1
  • Filed: 10/17/2003
  • Published: 04/21/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of providing a scalable multicast infrastructure for multicast messaging on an overlay network including a set of nodes, wherein each node in the set of nodes has a node name indicating a network region of the node, the method comprising:

  • disseminating messages through a multicast tree formed from a subset of the set of overlay nodes, wherein a root node of the multicast tree belongs to a first network region and a path in the multicast tree is prohibited from re-entering the first network region once the path leaves the first network region.

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