Patent ID: 7752311

Claim:
A method comprising: determining to change a number of objects controlled by a particular node of a plurality of nodes configured to communicate in a network, wherein each object of a plurality of objects is a resource provided by the network; associating each of the plurality of objects with a unique object position in a coordinate space of N dimensions, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is associated with a unique node position in the coordinate space of N dimensions, and wherein each node controls operation of objects in a control set of zero or more objects of the plurality of objects which are closer to the node than to any other node of the plurality of nodes using an agreed definition of scalar distance between two positions in at least N dimensions; adding a different N+1 dimension from the N dimensions, wherein the N+1 dimension has a zero value for the plurality of objects; determining a particular value for the N+1 dimension for the particular node such that a change in a number of objects in a particular control set of the particular node is not greater than a threshold change; decreasing the number of objects in the particular control set below a previous number of objects in the control set; and increasing a previous value for the N+1 dimension.