Patent ID: 11962463
Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method of servicing a computation request submitted by an entity to a node of a distribution network, the method comprising:
making a self-determination in accordance with a local joint policy, the local joint policy defining rules for performing calculations used to make decisions to:
perform computations to service the computation request received from the entity;
forward the computation request or representation thereof or a data request for at least a portion of a data object; and
cache the at least a portion of the data object;

performing computations to service the computation request using data of the data object; and
forwarding results of the computations performed, the results forwarded toward the entity that submitted the computation request and in a direction opposite to a direction in which the computation request is received by the node, wherein the local joint policy includes calculating a difference between respective computation request counters for one or more computation requests of one or more queues at the node and respective data request counters for the computation requests of the one or more queues, the respective computation request counters representing demand for computations, the respective data request counters representing demand for data objects.