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Byzantine fault-tolerance in distributed computing networks

US8321495B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Nicholas Bailey · Mesa, US
Peter Stretton · Winchester, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 28, 2010
Grant date	Nov 27, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 14, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F11/184
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A mobile intelligent agent is used in a Byzantine fault-tolerant computing network. The mobile intelligent agent ensures that only a single instance of the mobile intelligent agent performs processing in the processing host. The agent interrogates an environment in the processing host for presence of a sibling mobile intelligent agent or a trace left by a sibling mobile intelligent agent. If a sibling mobile intelligent agent or a trace left by a sibling mobile intelligent agent is detected, further execution by the mobile intelligent agent in the processing host is ended. The agent will then be forwarded onward to find a processing host wherein the agent has not been executed.

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