Patent Document ID: 20050283530
Application ID: 11179041
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for propagating a network Topology model of a binary tree Topology network through the network, the network including a plurality of nodes, including a root node and at least one leaf node, operatively networked Together To provide a communications path for data, each of the plurality of nodes except the root node being docked downtree of a parent node, the parent node being one of the plurality of nodes, and each of the plurality of nodes adapted To be docked uptree of a first child node and a second child node, each of the at least one leaf nodes having none of the plurality of nodes docked downtree of and therewith, the method comprising the steps of: each of the at least one leaf nodes providing a propagate network Topology model message containing the address of the providing leaf node To the parent node docked uptree of and with the providing leaf node; for each of the plurality of nodes receiving the propagate network Topology model message from each child node docked downtree of and therewith: forming a network Topology model representing one or more paths from the receiving node To each one of the plurality of nodes downtree of the receiving node; storing in a memory accessible To the receiving node, the network topology model so formed; providing To the parent node docked uptree of and with the receiving node a propagate network Topology model message containing the network Topology model so formed, thereby propagating a network Topology model through the network.