Selection of inter-network communication
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsGraham C. Charters, Bret W. Dixon, Benjamin T. Horwood, Alexander H. Poga, Mark A. Shewell
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Abstract
A device to deliver data to a network may be identified. The data to be delivered may be identified. Information associated with a device's probability of travelling to the network may be identified. Based on that information, the data to be delivered may be transferred to the device.
Claims10
1-11. (canceled)
A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to:
- identify, by a processor, content to be communicated to a first network;
- identify, by the processor, information associated with a probability that a first device of a second network will travel to the first network;
- and
- transfer, by the processor and based on the probability that the first device will travel to the first network, the content to the first device.
A system comprising a first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to perform a method for inter-network communications comprising:
- broadcasting, to devices of a first network over the first network, a request for information associated with histories of travel of the devices to a second network;
- receiving replies over the first network from a set of the devices, each reply including information associated with the replying devices' history of travel to the second network;
- identifying, based on the replies, a first subset of devices within the set of devices that have travelled to the second network;
- identifying, based on the replying devices' history of travel, a second subset of devices within the first subset of devices that have a sufficient probability of travelling to the second network within a target time period;
- and
- sending, to the second subset of devices, data addressed to the second network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.