Patent ID: 7050398
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of increasing network processing node interconnect capacity and reducing maximum hop count in a scalable multidimensional ring network by creating additional rings comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a node identification algorithm; (b) selecting an initial network processing node in the scalable multidimensional ring network as a first node in a new ring; (c) applying the node identification algorithm to the selected node to calculate a subsequent node in the new ring; (d) making the calculated node the selected node; (e) repeating steps c–d until the selected node is the initial network processing node, thereby creating the new ring; and (f) repeating steps b–e until all nodes in the scalable multidimensional ring network have been processed according to steps (b) through (e), thereby creating all new rings in the scalable multidimensional ring network.