Patent ID: 8775547

Claim:
A method of sharing memory in a multiple parallel path network having a plurality of communication paths between a transmitting node and a receiving node, the method comprising: compressing in a transmitting node a report on multiple communication paths associated with the transmitting node to a compressed report; fragmenting the compressed report having a transmission size exceeding a transmission capacity of a first communication path into a first fragment of the compressed report and a second fragment of the compressed report; transmitting the first fragment across the first communication path to a receiving node and transmitting the second fragment across a second communication path having a measure of independence from the first communication path to the receiving node that is greater than measured levels of independence of other available communication paths between the transmitting node and the receiving node; receiving the first fragment and the second fragment in the receiving node to be recombined as a combined compressed report; decompressing the combined compressed report in the receiving node to the report for storage in a region of shared memory; and adjusting selection of communication paths utilizing report data from the report.