Patent ID: 7930379

Claim:
A method for delay tolerant networking comprises the following computer-implemented operations: transmitting a file from a first node associated with a first network to at least one intermediate node via a file-system interface; receiving the file at the at least one intermediate node via the file system interface; transmitting the file from the at least one intermediate node to at least one node of an additional network via the file-system interface; and receiving the file at the at least one node of the additional network via the file-system interface; controlling the transmission of the file using a directory structure associated with the file-system interface, the directory structure configured to enable multi-hop communication between a plurality of nodes; placing the file within an incoming subdirectory of the directory structure; and creating at least one lock file associated with the file; wherein the at least one lock file is deleted upon successful transmission of the file to the at least one intermediate node and/or the at least one node of the additional network; and wherein the file-system interface enables a user to describe the topology of the delay tolerant network, and further dynamically change the topology with a set of transport layer operators.