Patent ID: 7451072

Claim:
A computer readable medium containing computer executable instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform instructions for communication within a network, said method comprising the steps of: a first computer executable instruction for transmitting a data packet as a broadcast signal from a first application node of a first subnetwork to a first gateway node of the first subnetwork; a second computer executable instruction for transmitting the data packet as a point-to-point signal from the first gateway node to a second gateway node of a second subnetwork; a third computer executable instruction for transmitting the data packet as a broadcast signal from the second gateway node of the second subnetwork to at least one application node of the second subnetwork; utilizing said three transmitting steps to simulate a war game between two remote geographic sites such that the data packet is stored in memory of one of the first subnetwork and the second subnetwork; and transmitting the data packet as a broadcast signal to a second application node of the first subnetwork.