Patent ID: 8793710
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: arranging multiple digital information devices having respective memories to communicate within a network; operating a first subset of the multiple digital information devices being non-monitoring devices and having respective memories not being assigned to manage any other device of the multiple digital information devices, the respective memories not storing replicated data from other ones of the multiple digital information devices; assigning within each of the respective memories of a second subset of the multiple digital information devices a respective memory region dedicated only to management of a respective subgroup of the multiple devices including respective digital information devices in the first subset, the management occurring by updating a distributed database including management metadata and state data, the second subset and the subgroup each having a cardinality of at least two, and the second subset of the multiple digital information devices being monitoring devices; managing at least one of the multiple digital information devices of the first subset of multiple digital information devices and the respective subgroup of the second subset of digital information devices; storing in one or more of the respective memories of the monitoring devices in the second subset replicated data from at least one of the non-monitoring devices in the first subset and other ones of the monitoring devices of the second subset of the multiple digital information devices; managing the multiple digital information devices by exchanging information stored in the respective memory regions among the digital information devices over the network; and the monitoring devices retrieving tasks from a task list for the updating of the distributed database and managing the monitoring devices and the non-monitoring devices.