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Maintaining membership within a federation infrastructure

  • US 20060088039A1
  • Filed: 12/17/2004
  • Published: 04/27/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At a current node in a federating infrastructure, a method for the current node to maintain membership within the federation infrastructure, the method comprising:

  • an act of sending a first ping message to a neighborhood node, the first ping message indicating to the neighborhood node the current node is participating as a neighbor of the neighborhood node and including routing partner and neighborhood nodes'"'"' state of the current node;

    an act of receiving a second ping message from a neighborhood node, the second ping message indicating to the current node at least that the neighborhood node originating the second ping message is participating as a neighbor of the current node and including routing partner and neighborhood nodes'"'"' state of the originating neighborhood node;

    an act of proximally routing an update request message to a perfect routing node, the update request message indicating to the routing node that the current node is participating as a routing partner of the routing node and including at least the current node'"'"'s neighborhood nodes'"'"' identities; and

    an act of receiving an update response message from the processing routing node, the update response indicating to the current node that the processing routing node is participating as a routing partner of the current node and including at least the processing routing partner'"'"'s neighborhood nodes'"'"' identities.

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