US 2020/0145484 A1 · SUB-GROUPS OF REMOTE COMPUTING DEVICES WITH RELAY DEVICES

Abstract

In example implementations, a method to create sub-groups of remote computing devices is provided. The method includes establishing, via a processor of a sending machine: a respective connection to a plurality of remote computing devices. The processor groups the plurality of remote computing devices into a plurality of sub-groups based on a common network. The processor identifies a remote computing device as a relay device within each one of the plurality of sub-groups having a best connection to the sending machine within a respective sub-group. Then a connection of remaining remote computing devices that are not identified as the relay device are redirected by the processor to the remote computing device that is identified as the relay device within the respective sub-group.

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Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

establishing, via a processor of a sending machine, a respective connection to a plurality of remote computing devices;
grouping, by the processor, the plurality of remote computing devices into a plurality of sub-groups based on a common network;
identifying, by the processor, a remote computing device as a relay device within each one of the plurality of sub-groups having a best connection to the sending machine within a respective sub-group;
and
redirecting, by the processor, a connection of remaining remote computing devices that are not identified as the relay device to the remote computing device that is identified as the relay device within the respective sub-group.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a sender machine, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising:

instructions to establish a respective connection request from a plurality of remote computing devices in response to a respective connection request;
instructions to obtain a respective connection quality to a sending machine and a respective network identification of each one of the plurality of remote computing devices from the respective connection request;
and
instructions to create a plurality of sub-groups, wherein each one of the plurality of sub-groups comprises some of the plurality of remote computing devices that share the respective network identification and have a remote computing device identified as a relay device having a best respective connection quality to the sending machine within a respective sub-group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sub-groups of remote computing devices with relay devices

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Sub-groups of remote computing devices with relay devices

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Abstract

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