Patent ID: 11909601
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. One or more non-transitory computer-accessible storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more processors of a particular node of a plurality of nodes of a provider network that implement a simulation, wherein the particular node is assigned a key that uniquely identifies a volume of space of the simulation managed by the particular node, cause the one or more processors to:
determine that a portion of the volume of space is to be assigned to a new node, wherein authority of entities located within the portion of the volume of space is to be transferred from the particular node to the new node;
cause, by the particular node, the new node to be allocated, wherein a new key is assigned to the new node that uniquely identifies the portion of the volume of space;
send, from the particular node to the new node, authoritative state of the entities located within the portion of the volume of space; and
release authority of the entities located within the portion of the volume of space, wherein the particular node retains authority of other entities within a remaining portion of the volume of space.