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AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsBarry White, Barry McCleave, Laura McCleave
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In select embodiments of the present invention, a configuration incorporates a suite of agents in a “flat” hardware architecture and superimposes thereon a self-forming, self-healing, hierarchical architecture implemented in software. Embodiments may be employed in various applications, such as maintaining network integrity. In one embodiment, a building security monitoring network provides for network agents to each be capable of communication with any other agents on a network at network startup. Shortly after network initialization, the software architecture is superimposed on (rides on) the flat hardware architecture, re-arranging communication links to provide an efficient hierarchy of control and substituting working agents for compromised agents as necessary in the network. All of this is done in a “live” network, not requiring shutdown, or even reduced operation to accomplish. This “dual” architecture (hierarchical software and flat hardware) provides excellent reliability in those “layered” network applications requiring near total reliability, such as security surveillance.
A self-healing configuration, comprising:
A self-healing network, comprising:
A method for establishing a self-healing configuration, comprising:
A method for establishing a self-healing network, comprising:
A self-forming and self-healing network, comprising:
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