Patent ID: 8078712

Claim:
A method of distributing a network command, comprising: receiving, by a network management server, a report from a set of destination devices, wherein the report comprises a set of pathways to the set of destination devices, wherein each pathway of the set of pathways comprises at least one of a pathway containing a least amount of node hops to a respective destination device or a pathway representing a lowest estimated data transmit time to the respective destination device; generating, based on the report, a network map comprising a set of indications of the set of pathways; generating a network command to transmit to the set of destination devices; examining the network map to determine the set of pathways to the set of destination devices on which to transmit the network command; transmitting the network command to at least one supervisory host; and relaying, from the at least one supervisory host to the set of destination devices, the network command via the set of pathways.