Patent ID: 8005015

Claim:
A method for executing a negotiated registry composition agreement, comprising: following negotiation of the registry composition agreement, receiving a first message at an overlay node to activate said overlay node, said first message including a list of at least one registry that supports an interface being used by said overlay node; and sending, from said overlay node, a second message toward a re-director module of each of said at least one registry in said list; wherein said overlay node further comprises: a signaling application, associated with a signaling layer of said overlay node, for processing said first and second messages; and a group management module, associated with a messaging layer of said overlay node and in communication with said signaling application, said group management module including: a create group function for creating a communication group to enable messages to be sent to a plurality of destinations; an add member function for adding a new member to said communication group; a remove member function for removing a member from said communication group; and a change member function for changing an IP address associated with a member of said communication group.