Patent ID: 11936658
Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. The method of claim 14, wherein determining the user group that provides the closest network path to the network resource comprises:
assigning a token to each other user from the number of other users;
for each other user:
simulating access to the requested network resource via the corresponding user group of the other user based on the token assigned to the other user;
incrementing a counter corresponding to the token for every network hop when attempting to access the network resource, wherein a network hop comprises a hop between user groups when a user group is nested in another user group; and
determining a total number of network hops needed to access the network resource based on the value of the counter after successfully accessing the network resource; and

selecting a user group having the minimum number of network hops to access the network resource as the user group that provides the closest network path to the network resource.