Patent ID: 8275826
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, a method for routing a namespace lookup request to a namespace manager responsible for a namespace branch corresponding to the namespace lookup request, the method comprising: an act of a particular namespace manager receiving a namespace lookup request requesting access to a resource at a provider within a namespace tree, an act of the particular namespace manager generating an at least one-way equivalent numeric identification value for the resource based on the namespace identifier of the namespace lookup request, including generating the at least one-way equivalent numeric identification value based on a combination of at least the scheme portion of the namespace identifier and at least one part of the path portion of the namespace identifier; and an act of the particular namespace manager sending the namespace lookup request to a destination namespace manager, which is included in the neighborhood of namespace managers that are within the predefined numeric range, and which has a unique identifier numerically closest to the at least one-way equivalent numeric identification value generated for the resource.