Patent ID: 9332069
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of deploying a membership of distributed compute nodes in a distributed computing system hosting replicated state machines, comprising; selecting distributed compute nodes to be part of a membership of distributed compute nodes to be deployed; creating a membership task identifying a membership creator node as the distributed compute node that is creating the membership to be deployed and comprising a membership target identifying at least one distributed compute node of the distributed computing system that is to become a member of the membership; persisting the created membership task in a persistent store; creating a beacon configured to send, over a computer network, a create membership message to each distributed compute node identified in the membership target, the create membership message comprising at least an identity of the membership task and an identification of the membership to be deployed; and upon the membership creator node receiving a response from a distributed compute node in the membership target: