Adaptive communication control device

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer readable memory in circuit communication with the processor;
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• a computer readable storage medium in circuit communication with the processor;
• wherein the processor executes program instructions that are integrated into and stored on the computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memory and thereby controls data transfers within a group of networked devices by:
• in response to receiving a request to transfer a data item to each of a plurality of devices that are interconnected on a network, selecting one of the devices and assigns a power value to the selected device that is indicative of a quality of a power supply to the device;
• assigning a connection value to the selected device that is indicative of a quality of network connections available to the selected device to communicate with others of the devices;
• incrementing a master state value of the selected device in response to determining that a request of a same type of data of the received request was processed by the selected device;
• setting a one of the devices that has a highest combination value generated from respective ones of the assigned master state value, power values and connection values as a master device to receive the request to transfer the data item and to transfer the data item to each of other ones of the devices that are not set as the master device as client devices to the master device;
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• designating the other ones of the devices that are not set as the master device as client devices of the master device with respect to transfer of the data item, wherein the client device designations prevent a transfer of the data to the client devices item from any other device that is not the master device.

A computer program product for controlling data transfers within a group of networked devices, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code integrated thereon and thereby embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the computer readable program code comprising instructions for execution by a computer system processor that is in circuit communication with a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium that cause the processor to execute the program code instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium via the computer readable memory and thereby controls data transfers within a group of networked devices by:
• in response to receiving a request to transfer a data item to each of a plurality of devices that are interconnected on a network, select one of the devices and assign a power value to the selected device that is indicative of a quality of a power supply to the device;
• assigns a connection value to the selected device that is indicative of a quality of network connections available to the selected device to communicate with others of the devices;
• increments a master state value of the selected device in response to determining that a request of a same type of data of the received request was processed by the selected device;
• set a one of the devices that has a highest combination value generated from respective ones of the assigned master state value, power values and connection values as a master device to receive the request to transfer the data item and to transfer the data item to each of other ones of the devices that are not set as the master device as client devices to the master device;
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• designates the other ones of the devices that are not set as the master device as client devices of the master device with respect to transfer of the data item, wherein the client device designations prevent a transfer of the data to the client devices item from any other device that is not the master device.