Reliable multicasting over spanning trees in packet communications networks

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PATENT NO 5459725
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08215534

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A packet communications network in which multicast transmissions are made reliable by transmitting acknowledgements to all neighbors of every receiving node, including the source node. This allows the relinquishment of message holding buffers as soon as all near neighbors acknowledge receipt of the message after only tile longest round trip time to the nearest neighbors, rather than the round trip to the furthest destination. Moreover, highly reliable ancillary point-to-point transmission facilities can be used to retransmit multicast messages indicated as being lost by failure of acknowledgment. Finally, network partitions occurring during the multicast procedure do not necessarily lose the multicast message to the remote partitions since any node receiving the message can insure delivery to all other nodes in that partition.

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  • INTERGRAPH HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bodner, Rachel A Raleigh, NC 1 108
Chow, Chee-Seng Briarcliff Manor, NY 6 1344
Cidon, Israel New York, NY 86 11027
Dudley, John G Raleigh, NC 8 504
Edwards, Allan K Raleigh, NC 6 866
Gopal, Inder S New York, NY 10 826
Immanuel, Chandra P Durham, NC 1 108
Kaplan, Marc A Katonah, NY 23 1094
Kutten, Shay Rockaway, NJ 14 1639
Tedijanto, Theodore E Cary, NC 12 1056

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