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Transaction state broadcast method using a two-stage multicast in a multiple processor cluster

US6247059A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 1998
Grant dateJun 12, 2001
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Expiry dateSep 8, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L12/1868
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a multiple processing system comprising multiple communicatively interconnected nodes, each node having one or more processor units, multicast messages sent by a sender node will contain information that allows intended receiver nodes to check and determine the possibility that earlier-sent multicast messages from the sender node were not received by the receiver node.

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