Patent ID: 7996502

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: means for detecting a new node added to a distributed system comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes control one or more objects, and wherein the one or more objects are associated with object positions in an N dimension space; means for associating the new node with an initial value in an N+1 dimension relative to the N dimension space, wherein the initial value provides a dimensional relationship of the new node with the one or more objects; means for comparing the dimensional relationship of the new node with one or more dimensional relationships of the plurality of nodes and the one or more objects; means for transferring control of the one or more objects from the plurality of nodes to the new node based on the comparison, wherein a new value in the N+1 dimension is selected to limit a number of the one or more objects that are transferred to the new node to a threshold value, and wherein the number of objects controlled by the new node increases in response to decreasing an N+1 dimension value associated with the new node.