Patent ID: 11863422
Assignee: NCHAIN LICENSING AG
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method of transmitting data packets generated at a node in a network of nodes, each node in the network having one or more connections to other nodes called neighbouring nodes, the method comprising:
generating at least one data packet of a first type;
determining, at the node, a mapping of the at least one generated data packet to its neighbouring nodes of the node the mapping indicating a specific subset of nodes to be associated with the at least one data packet of the first type, wherein determining the mapping includes:
identifying a predetermined number of first data packets of the first type that were previously generated by the node;
obtaining a list of relay node sets associated with the first data packets, the relay node sets including neighbouring nodes to which the first data packets are respectively relayed; and
selecting a first set of relay nodes based on identifying a set of neighbouring nodes that is different from the relay node sets in the obtained list, and

transmitting the at least one data packet according to the determined mapping.