Patent ID: 11886229
Assignee: TANIUM INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
at a respective machine of N respective machines in the collection of machines, where N is an integer greater than 1:
after sending the respective first report, receiving, from an external machine, external to the one or more linear communication orbits, an instruction packet via a first linear communication orbit of the one or more linear communication orbits, wherein the instruction packet has been propagated to the respective machine through one or more upstream machines along the first linear communication orbit, and wherein the instruction packet includes an instruction for establishing a direct duplex connection between the respective machine and the external machine;
in response to receiving the instruction packet through the first linear communication orbit, sending an outbound connection request to the external machine to establish the direct duplex connection between the respective machine and the external machine in accordance with a respective network connection protocol; and
sending to the external machine, via the direct duplex connection, a second report with additional information, not included in the respective first report, with respect to one or more of the files identified as meeting the predefined similarity criteria with respect to the target document.