Patent ID: 8688856

Claim:
A machine-implemented method to execute on a processing device, comprising: receiving, by the processing device, a key from a first node; acquiring, by the processing device, a delivery path for a network in response to the key, the delivery path securely managed and selectively communicated to the first node participating in routing content to the destination node via the delivery path, the first node does not have an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a destination node for which the content is to sent over the network, and the key is used by the method processing to discover an identity of the destination node, the identity is discovered based on a value for the key, once the identity is known, the method generates the delivery path for moving a message with the content over the network from the first node to the destination node, the message does not include path processing information and does not include path information, the message includes the content and the key and a particular address to a next node in the delivery path; and instructing, by the processing device, the first node to forward the content associated with the key and the key to a second node, the second node is only communicated to the first node as a next hop addresses that is selectively identified from the delivery path, the first node cannot discover the delivery path and only is provided the next hop address for purposes of routing the content to the next hop address along with the key, the first, second, next, and destination nodes do not perform path processing for the content and do not have the path processing information.