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TWO DIMENSIONAL LOCATION TRANSPARENCY OF SOFTWARE SERVICES

  • US 20110103383A1
  • Filed: 10/30/2009
  • Published: 05/05/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for distributing a data message from an originating device to an unknown destination device across at least one spatial boundary and at least one administrative domain boundary in a network that includes a plurality of equipment platforms, each equipment platform including at least one administrative domain, comprising:

  • a plurality of distributor modules, each distributor module resident within one of the administrative domains and configured to (i) publish an advertisement for one or more data messages, (ii) receive data messages for which it has published the advertisement, (iii) and selectively transmit the received data messages either across the at least one spatial boundary to another one of the plurality of distributor modules or within the administrative boundary that it resides; and

    a plurality of domain bridges, each domain bridge spanning the at least one administrative domain boundary within each equipment platform, each domain bridge configured to (i) forward the advertisement for one or more data messages, (ii) receive data messages transmitted from one or more distributor modules in the same equipment platform and for which it has forwarded the advertisement, and (iii) transmit the received data messages across the administrative domain boundary that it spans to another one of the plurality of distributor modules in the same equipment platform; and

    a means for discovering the advertisement for the one or more data messages that is published by the one or more distributor modules, the one or more distributor modules being one of spatially and administratively distant from the administrative domain in which the one or more data message exists.

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