Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer-to-computer protocol implementing – Computer-to-computer data transfer regulating
Patent
1998-04-20
2000-11-21
Vu, Viet D.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer-to-computer protocol implementing
Computer-to-computer data transfer regulating
709224, 709232, 709238, 370229, 370254, G06F 1300
Patent
active
061516333
ABSTRACT:
An embodiment consistent with the present invention includes a method and apparatus for distributing multicast data. The method may be performed by a data processor and comprises the steps of forming a multicast repair tree including a sender, a plurality of heads, and a plurality of receivers, wherein at least one head is associated with the sender and at least one receiver is associated with the head; sending, by a sender to the plurality of heads and the plurality of receivers, a plurality of multicast messages at a data rate; receiving, by the sender from one of the plurality of heads, a congestion status associated with a receiver of the head; and slowing the data rate, by the sender, in accordance with the congestion status.
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Hanna Stephen R.
Hurst Stephen A.
Kadansky Miriam C.
Rosenzweig Philip M.
Wesley Joseph
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Vu Viet D.
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