Dynamic management of node clusters to enable data sharing
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1. A method of managing clusters of a communications environment, said method comprising:
- obtaining a cluster of nodes, said cluster of nodes comprising one or more nodes of a data owning cluster; and
dynamically joining the cluster of nodes by one or more other nodes to access data owned by the data owning cluster.
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Abstract
An active cluster is dynamically formed to perform a specific task. The active cluster includes one or more data owning nodes of at least one data owning cluster and one or more data using nodes of at least one data using cluster that are to access data of the data owning cluster. The active cluster is dynamic in that the nodes of the cluster are not statically defined. Instead, the active cluster is formed, when a need for such a cluster arises to satisfy a particular task.
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1. A method of managing clusters of a communications environment, said method comprising:
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obtaining a cluster of nodes, said cluster of nodes comprising one or more nodes of a data owning cluster; and
dynamically joining the cluster of nodes by one or more other nodes to access data owned by the data owning cluster. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system of managing clusters of a communications environment, said system comprising:
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means for obtaining a cluster of nodes, said cluster of nodes comprising one or more nodes of a data owning cluster; and
means for dynamically joining the cluster of nodes by one or more other nodes to access data owned by the data owning cluster. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A system of managing clusters of a communications environment, said system comprising:
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a cluster of nodes, said cluster of nodes comprising one or more nodes of a data owning cluster; and
one or more other nodes to dynamically join the cluster of nodes to access data owned by the data owning cluster.
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25. An article of manufacture comprising
at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to manage clusters of a communications environment, the computer readable program code logic comprising: -
obtain logic to obtain a cluster of nodes, said cluster of nodes comprising one or more nodes of a data owning cluster; and
join logic to dynamically join the cluster of nodes by one or more other nodes to access data owned by the data owning cluster. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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