Network location management system
CA 2460768 A1 · Owner: Hoile, Cefn Richard · Inventors: Bonsma, Erwin Rein; Hoile, Cefn Richard
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In a communications network environment nodes, such as personal computers, are assigned co-ordinates in a co-ordinate space (200) which is independent of network address and physical location. Each node (100) maintains links to a limited set of other nodes by storing the network addresses for those selected nodes. Each stored network address represents a link (205) in co-ordinate space (200). It becomes possible for any node to obtain the network address for a target node by initiating a query message to a node it has the network address for, which query message is propagated through the network between nodes which have the network address for a next node across co-ordinate space. …
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- Filed October 11, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 11, 2022.
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