Patent ID: 6748451
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G04G,G06F,H04J,H04L

Abstract:
A computer implemented method for enabling a plurality of computer nodes in mutual data communication, through a circuit switching message carrier having a communications and scheduling pipeline and supporting multiple communication paths simultaneously without providing additional data communication paths for each member node to use for sending communication request lists or receiving the communications schedule, to execute logic in a coordinated manner, comprising:aligning real-time time between said plurality of computer nodes so that each computer node has essentially the same real-time time; defining a schedule of communications for each computer node, each communication in said schedule having a duration time less than a fixed communication time value for all nodes in said plurality of nodes, said schedule having a different time in the future defined for initiating each respective communication; communicating each schedule to its respective computer node; and initiating each communication from each node at the time defined in its schedule.