Method for providing an efficient and adaptive management of message routing in a multi-platform and apparatus communication system
First Claim
1. A method for providing an efficient and adaptive management of message routing in a multi-platform, multi-network communications system having dynamically changing platform populations and dynamically changing connectivities between platforms where each of said platforms are capable of performing the steps of:
- recognizing at least certain ones of said platforms in said system;
deriving from at least one of said recognized platforms the quality of interconnectivities of said recognized platforms and certain others of said platforms in said system, said quality of interconnectivities transmission media disruptions, recognized transmit and receive power and antenna gain whereby said quality can be determined only after recognition of said platforms; and
employing said derived quality of interconnectivities to make connectivity-based routing decisions using either a point-to-point routing algorithm, a point-to-multipoint routing algorithm, or a broadcast routing algorithm as appropriate.
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Abstract
The method for providing an efficient and adaptive management of message routing in a multi-platform, communication system having dynamically changing platform populations and dynamically changing connectivities between platforms where each of the platforms are capable of performing the steps of recognizing at least certain ones of the platforms in the system, deriving from at least one of the recognized platforms the quality of interconnectivities of the recognized platforms and certain others of the platforms in the system; and employing the derived quality of interconnectivities to make connectivity-based routing decisions using a selective one of a point-to-point routing algorithm, a point-to-multipoint routing algorithm and a broadcast routing algorithm.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for providing an efficient and adaptive management of message routing in a multi-platform, multi-network communications system having dynamically changing platform populations and dynamically changing connectivities between platforms where each of said platforms are capable of performing the steps of:
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recognizing at least certain ones of said platforms in said system; deriving from at least one of said recognized platforms the quality of interconnectivities of said recognized platforms and certain others of said platforms in said system, said quality of interconnectivities transmission media disruptions, recognized transmit and receive power and antenna gain whereby said quality can be determined only after recognition of said platforms; and employing said derived quality of interconnectivities to make connectivity-based routing decisions using either a point-to-point routing algorithm, a point-to-multipoint routing algorithm, or a broadcast routing algorithm as appropriate. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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5. A method according to claim wherein
said step of employing includes the steps of establishing and maintaining knowledge of said connectivities in said system; - and
using said knowledge effectively to satisfy communication message deliverability requirements for both data and voice traffic in a timely fashion.
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15. A method according to claim wherein
said step of employing includes the steps of establishing and maintaining knowledge of said connectivities in said system; - and
using said knowledge effectively to satisfy communication message deliverability requirements for both data and voice traffic in a timely fashion.
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