Method and system for transmitting data within a tree structure

Details Method and system for transmitting data within a tree structure Method and system for transmitting data within a tree structure

1996-10-25

1999-06-08

Barry, Esq., Lance Leonard

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Star or tree computer networking

370408, 34082502, H04L 1244

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059101792

ABSTRACT:
Communication of information from a central station, acting as a source node, to a plurality of destination nodes at customer sites is implemented by using various of the destination nodes as intermediary transfer nodes, which receive information from the central station or from other predecessor intermediary nodes and which transfer the information to other intermediary transfer nodes or to final destination nodes. Communication links are established between specified ones of the destination nodes to provide a grouping of nodes in which each node transfers information to no more than a predetermined number of nodes, resulting in a top-down tree structure in which the central station is a top source node of the tree. The destination nodes provide confirmation signals confirming receipt of the transmitted information to the nodes in the immediately preceding level of the tree structure, along the same communication links used to transmit the information. The confirmation signals are received from each of the nodes to which the information was successfully transmitted, thus identifying those nodes in the tree structure which failed to receive data, as well as the nodes at the lowest tree level with confirmed receipt of the information.

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