Patent · US Expired

Incidence graph based communications and operations method and apparatus for parallel processing architecture

US5881304A · kind A · utility

0Cited by
10References
11Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMar 21, 1997
Grant dateMar 9, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 21, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/4637
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for performing operations at nodes in a distributed network of interconnected nodes wherein a two dimensional array is arranged with each of the nodes represented by a single row heading and a single column heading. The intersections of row and column headings at which operations are to be performed may be provided with a token indicative of this condition. The token may further be associated with operation parameters defining the performance of the operations at the two nodes represented by the intersecting row and column headings.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.