Patent ID: 7664032

Claim:
A communication terminal for use in a communication network, comprising: means for generating routing information for routing packets from a source terminal to a destination terminal on both a single-path route in the communication network and a multipath route in the communication network, the source terminal and the destination terminal being an arbitrary pair of the communication terminals in the communication network; means for placing said routing information in packets and transmitting said packets to neighboring communication terminals in the communication network; and means for analyzing the routing information in packets received from said neighboring terminals in the communication network; means for determining a suspension time; and means for suspending transmission of a received packet for said suspension time, abandoning the suspended packet if an identical packet is received during the suspension time, the identical packet also being abandoned, and transmitting the received packet at the end of the suspension time if no identical packet is received from another communication terminal in the communication network during the suspension time, wherein the single-path route is separated from the multipath route so that signals transmitted on the multipath route do not interfere with signals transmitted on the single-path route.