Patent ID: 11863617
Assignee: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A virtual network comprising:
a plurality of computing devices disposed in a unidirectional communication ring comprising a plurality of serially-connected spikes, wherein
each spike comprises:
n computing devices, and
n×p connections directly connecting each of the n computing devices to p downstream computing devices; and

each computing device is configured to:
request and receive an inventory of the plurality of computing devices;
select a computing device from the plurality of computing devices;
transmit a join request comprising the inventory to the selected computing device; and
request reorganizing the unidirectional communication ring in response to receipt of the transmitted join request after propagation through each of the plurality of spikes of the unidirectional communication ring.