Patent ID: 8948178
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a computing system for message routing in a data communications network, the communications network having a plurality of clusters each having one representative network node and at least one other network node, wherein the representative network node of the cluster is interconnected using links with all other network nodes of its cluster, comprising: receiving a message with a location identification for the message, the location identification comprising at least a first component that identifies a destination network node for the message and a second component that identifies a representative network node that represents a cluster, and wherein the destination network node is a member of the cluster represented by the representative network node; selecting the representative network node identified by the second component of the location identification; and identifying a best link to the selected representative network node, wherein the best link is identified from routing information in a routing table, wherein the routing table comprises components identifying a subset of a set of network nodes associated with the data communications network; and communicating the message to the representative network node via the identified best link.