Data network message broadcast arrangement
US5245607A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 5, 1990 |
| Grant date | Sep 14, 1993 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 5, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L12/1886
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A facility is provided in a data network to prevent a so-called connectionless broadcast message from flooding the network as a result of each network node retransmitting such messages to its neighboring nodes even though a neighboring node may have received them from another neighbor. Specifically, a node x that receives a connectionless broadcast message retransmits the message to a neighboring node y only when node x finds that it is closer to the source of the message than node y is including any other neighbor of node y.
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