Patent ID: 8612397
Filing Date: 2013-12-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method embodied as computer code in a non-transitory computer readable medium for managing convergence and divergence of information in a system of nodes, the computer code when read and executed by a computer performing the steps comprising: creating a first stream at a first node of a plurality of nodes, the first stream comprising a first set of entities including a first relationship entity; creating a second stream at a second node of the plurality of nodes, the second stream comprising a second set of entities including a second relationship entity; diverging the first stream in relation to the second stream by appending a third set of additional entities to the first stream; diverging the second stream in relation to the first stream by appending a fourth set of additional entities to the second stream, whereby the expanding first stream includes information causing asymmetry in relation to the information in the second stream and the second stream includes information causing asymmetry in relation to the information in the first stream; converging the first stream and the second stream by appending a subset of one of the streams to the other stream producing a converged stream at a point in time, while the first stream and second stream each continue to simultaneously diverge after the point in time through appending the first set of additional new entities to the first stream and the second set of additional new entities to the second stream.