Patent ID: 7099341

Claim:
A system for moving an object along a path in a network grid from a source to a destination according to the OSPF routing algorithm, comprising: a) network processing capabilities at each node in the grid represented by intersecting paths, wherein the processing capabilities at each node comprise a network processor, one or more of the network processors is represented by a software simulator in a CPU, and the entire collection of network processor simulators and the common control point are within a single CPU or a CPU complex; b) a routing table for each of the network processing capabilities, the routing table comprising links with other nodes in the grid to which each of the network processing capabilities is interconnected; c) a cost factor associated with each link included in the table of each network processor; d) a procedure for setting a cost of infinity for any intersection that becomes unavailable; and e) the ability to build an alternative path for the object between the source and the destination that bypasses the unavailable intersection using the OSPF routing algorithm.