Information delivery service
DC CAFC
First Claim
1. A computer network for providing an information delivery service for a plurality of participants, each participant having connections to at least three neighbor participants, wherein an originating participant sends data to the other participants by sending the data through each of its connections to its neighbor participants and wherein each participant sends data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its other neighbor participants, further wherein the network is m-regular, where m is the exact number of neighbor participants of each participant and further wherein the number of participants is at least two greater than m thus resulting in a non-complete graph.
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Abstract
A computer network for providing an information delivery service for a plurality of participants over the network is disclosed. Each participant has connections to at least three neighbor participants. An originating participant sends data to the other participants by sending the data through each of its connections to its neighbor participants. Further, each participant sends data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its other neighbor participants. The network is m-regular where m is the exact number of neighbor participants of each participant and the network is an incomplete graph.
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- 1. A computer network for providing an information delivery service for a plurality of participants, each participant having connections to at least three neighbor participants, wherein an originating participant sends data to the other participants by sending the data through each of its connections to its neighbor participants and wherein each participant sends data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its other neighbor participants, further wherein the network is m-regular, where m is the exact number of neighbor participants of each participant and further wherein the number of participants is at least two greater than m thus resulting in a non-complete graph.
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13. An information delivery service comprising:
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a plurality of broadcast channels, each broadcast channel for distributing information relating to a topic, each of the broadcast channels for providing said information related to a topic to a plurality of participants, each participant having connections to at least three neighbor participants, wherein an originating participant sends data to the other participants by sending the data through each of its connections to its neighbor participants and wherein each participant sends data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its neighbor participants, further wherein the network is m-regular, where m is the exact number of neighbor participants of each participant and further wherein the number of participants is at least two greater than m thus resulting in a non-complete graph;
means for identifying a broadcast channel for a topic of interest; and
means for connecting to the identified broadcast channel. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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- 16. A computer network for providing an information delivery service for a plurality of participants, each participant having connections to exactly four neighbor participants, wherein an originating participant sends data to the other participants by sending the data through each of its connections to its neighbor participants and wherein each participant sends data that it receives from a neighbor participant to its neighbor participants, further wherein the network is in a stable 4-regular state and wherein there are at least six participants to result in a non-complete graph.
Specification
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Current AssigneePH Madison Funding, LLC
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Original AssigneeThe Boeing Co.
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InventorsHolt, Fred B., Bourassa, Virgil E.
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Primary Examiner(s)Dinh, Dung C.
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Assistant Examiner(s)EDELMAN, BRADLEY E
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Application NumberUS09/629,043Time in Patent Office1,338 DaysField of Search709/204, 709/205, 709/227, 709/243, 709/203, 463/40, 463/42US Class Current709/204CPC Class CodesH04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, ...H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for co...H04L 12/185 with management of multicas...H04L 12/1854 with non-centralised forwar...H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networksH04L 67/1055 involving connection limits...H04L 69/329 in the application layer [O...
