Patent ID: 6772220
Filing Date: 2004-08-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of routing a desired command between a sender with a coupled invoker and a recipient with a coupled receiver comprising the steps of:providing a router object with a hierarchical tree of routers, providing at least one router destination table for the hierarchical tree of routers, examining a destination address of the desired command, moving and routing the desired command to a next hop location based on the at least one router destination table and the destination address, moving and routing the desired command to a next hop location that is up at least one hierarchical level within the hierarchical tree of routers if the destination address is not at a lower level in the at least one router destination table, and moving and routing the desired command to a next hop location that is down at least one hierarchical level within the hierarchical tree of routers if the destination address is at a lower level in the at least one router destination table.