Patent ID: 7406091
Filing Date: 2008-07-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of distributing communications between paths, comprising: providing a plurality of destinations that are a plurality of devices; providing a plurality of communications paths such that all of the plurality of destinations can be accessed over all of the plurality of communications paths; defining destination addresses interleaved over the plurality of destinations; sending messages from a source to a plurality of the destination addresses; and selecting different ones of the plurality of paths for successive messages in a series of messages having sequential addresses; wherein the path for a message is selected from among the plurality of communications paths using part of the address of the message; wherein the destination addresses are defined in rows, each row is interleaved over a plurality of columns, each column is assigned to a destination device, and the number of columns is greater than or equal to the number of devices, comprising interleaving the columns over the destination devices, and selecting different ones of the plurality of paths for successive messages to the same destination device in a series of messages having sequential addresses within the same row of addresses.