Patent ID: 11924305
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the federation is connected to the central node comprises:
determining, by the one or more processors, whether the first edge node is connected to the central node;
in response to determining that the first edge node is not connected to the central node, determining, by the one or more processors, whether there are one or more edge nodes capable of connecting to the central node in the federation; and
in response to determining that there are the one or more edge nodes capable of connecting to the central node in the federation, causing, by the one or more processors, one of the one or more edge nodes to connect to the central node such that the federation is connected to the central node.