Patent ID: 8688827
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, for providing a scalable and elastic two-level overlay computer network, comprising: providing a host network, wherein the host network includes a system of interconnected computers and is operable to support one or more transport layer protocols; generating a first overlay network, wherein: in response to a first-level nodal entity receiving an instruction from a dispatch controller, generating, by one or more first-level nodal entities, the second overlay network, wherein: distributing data originating at a second-level nodal entity to a designated set of second-level nodal entities in the second overlay network, wherein the designated set of second-level nodal entities is disjoint from other second-level entities in the second overlay network; and connecting entities in the designated set of second-level nodal entities to form a graph, wherein the second-level nodal entities in the designated set of second-level nodal entities constitute vertices of the graph and wherein connections between the second-level nodal entities constitute links of the graph.