Patent ID: 7886039
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A session management method for distributed interactive systems comprising: identifying an application having an application space; partitioning the application space into a plurality of communication interest partitions; identifying network resources having network characteristics; mapping the network resources based on the network characteristics to produce network map information, wherein the network characteristics comprise at least one of: a network fanout, a network delay, or a network forwarding capacity; indexing the plurality of communication interest partitions and the network map information to form a multi-type attribute index structure; grouping users into communication interest-based groupings; and managing communications between one of said users and the application through the network resources using a hierarchical structure that is based on the multi-type attribute index structure and on the communication interest-based groupings, wherein at least one of: said identifying the application, said partitioning, said identifying the network resources, said mapping, said indexing, said grouping, or said managing is performed using a processor.