Patent ID: 8769077

Claim:
A method comprising: defining, by a system including a processor, an address space comprising a set of strings having a topological structure; defining, by the system, a mapping function with a range of the address space and a domain of a group of entities; and assigning, by the system, respective addresses to the group of entities based on the mapping function, wherein the addresses assigned to the set of entities are topologically dependent, wherein the group of entities is expandable in a repeatable manner to establish a recursive layered structure, wherein the group of entities provides interprocess communication service resources to an adjacent layer of the recursive layered structure, wherein the group of entities is partitioned into subsets of entities, wherein a first entity in a first subset of the subsets of entities communicates with a second entity in the first subset using an address that is selected from the address space, wherein the first entity in the first subset is assigned an address from the address space that is unique within the first subset, wherein the mapping function includes assigning addresses corresponding to nodes of a tree structure to addressable entities, and wherein a composition of each address uniquely identifies a position of a node in the tree structure.