Patent ID: 7567562

Claim:
A system for supporting information transfer in a network, comprising: a plurality of nodes; an originator initiating communication with a target at a target node by propagating instances of an first intelligent receptor entity representing a request to one or more of the plurality nodes in the network, wherein each of the nodes receiving an instance of the first intelligent receptor entity installs another instance of the first intelligent receptor entity on that node and the installed instance resides on that node, wherein said first intelligent receptor entity eventually reaches the target node via multiple paths, and wherein the target, upon receiving at least one of the instances of the first receptor entity, generates a reply information packet having a first receptor ID associated with the first intelligent receptor entity and places the reply information packet in the at least one instance, wherein the at least one instance broadcasts the packet to nearby nodes that are a part of the plurality of nodes, wherein at least one of the nearby nodes matches the first receptor ID with at least one instances of an intelligent receptor entity and installed on the at least one nearby node, and wherein a matched instance of the first intelligent receptor entity and installed on the at least one nearby node broadcasts at least part of the packet to nearby nodes of the at least one nearby node, wherein the at least part of the reply information packet eventually is relayed to said originator by at least one of the instances, of the first intelligent receptor entity, each installed and residing on a node of the plurality of nodes; wherein an instance of the first intelligent receptor entity and that is dynamically installed at a first node of the plurality of nodes propagates another instance of the first intelligent receptor entity to a nearby node of the first node; wherein each of the instances of the first intelligent receptor entity serves as an rendezvous logic for matching the first receptor ID in the reply information packet and executes a predefined broadcasting logic to broadcast the reply information packet.