Method for designating communication paths in a network
First Claim
1. One or more computer storage media containing executable instructions that, when executed, implement the following steps:
- creating one or more communication groups from a plurality of servers sharing a distributed database, wherein the plurality of servers has one or more replicating servers and at least two intermediate servers, each communication group being created by grouping each a first intermediate server with at least a second intermediate server and a replicating server, wherein the intermediate servers are grouped with the replicating server with which it is optimal for the intermediate servers to communicate;
identifying one or more inter-group communication paths, each inter-group communication path connecting two or more groups;
creating a replication topology representation having a plurality of primary communication paths in which the intermediate servers are replaced with the inter-group communication paths; and
determining optimal communication paths using the replication topology representation.
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Abstract
A method for designating communication paths in a computer network is provided, in which communication paths are designated for the transmission of data throughout a network. The network may have both recipient computers, which are the intended recipients of the data, and intermediary computers, which are not the intended recipients, but merely relay the data. Each intermediary computer is grouped with the “closest” recipient computer (i.e. the recipient computer with whom it is “least expensive” to communicate). Communication paths between the resulting groups are then identified. A representation of the network is then created. The representation replaces the intermediary computers with the inter-group communication paths, so that the inter-group communication paths appear to pass directly through the locations occupied by the intermediary computers. The created representation is then further processed so that the “least expensive” communication paths may be designated.
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9 Claims
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1. One or more computer storage media containing executable instructions that, when executed, implement the following steps:
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creating one or more communication groups from a plurality of servers sharing a distributed database, wherein the plurality of servers has one or more replicating servers and at least two intermediate servers, each communication group being created by grouping each a first intermediate server with at least a second intermediate server and a replicating server, wherein the intermediate servers are grouped with the replicating server with which it is optimal for the intermediate servers to communicate; identifying one or more inter-group communication paths, each inter-group communication path connecting two or more groups; creating a replication topology representation having a plurality of primary communication paths in which the intermediate servers are replaced with the inter-group communication paths; and determining optimal communication paths using the replication topology representation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. One or more computer storage media containing executable instructions that, when executed, implement the following steps:
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creating a replication topology for a network having replicating computers and intermediary computers, wherein the replicating computers share a common data store and replicate changes to the data store to other replicating computers, by grouping each intermediary computer with the replicating computer with which it is least expensive to communicate, thereby creating one or more shortest-path trees; determining the total cost of sending replicated changes between pairs of replicating computers via their respective shortest-path trees; creating a replication path cost map having only replicating computers, wherein each of the pairs of replicating computers is represented as communicating by one or more direct links having a cost equal to the determined total cost; designating the least expensive, non-redundant paths on the cost map as paths over which the replicating computers can transmit replicated changes to one another; grouping the computers holding one or more writeable copies of a partition with each other without any intervening computers holding only one or more read-only copies of a partition; linking the computers holding only one or more read-only copies of a partition with the computers holding one or more writeable copies of a partition; and grouping the computers holding only one or more read-only copies of a partition to replicate from one or more other computers holding only one or more read-only copies of a partition if required by the replication topology for the network. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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