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US 2009/0213757 A1Published application
Neighborhood maintenance in the federation
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGopala Krishna Reddy Kakivaya, Lu Xun
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Abstract
Systems and methods that provide for joining a node to a federation. A link component facilitates joining such node thru three phases of join, introduce and advise. A plurality of messages and replies are exchanged between nodes in form of introduce, advise, and response messages. Such messages contain the sending node's full neighborhood.
Claims20
A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
- a federation that represent a collection of nodes that have established trust;
- and
- a link component that facilitates addition of a node to the federation through introduce and advise phases.
A computer implemented method of joining a node to a federation comprising:
- joining a node to a federation;
- introducing the node to the federation;
- and
- advising the node to the federation base on message exchange between nodes of the federation.
1 more element
A computer implemented system comprising the following computer executable components:
- means for representing a collection of nodes that have established trust;
- and
- means for adding a node to the federation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.