Patent Document ID: 8724512
Application ID: 12478637
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. In a computer system, a method for remembering and recycling network addresses by using address allocation generation numbers, the method comprising: storing a first value corresponding to a least recently used address allocation generation; a master computer querying a set of slave computing systems in a network in which generation numbers have been recently used, querying comprising sending a broadcast packet comprising a response probability value, a response time value, and a guess generation value; in response to querying, receiving from the set of slave computing systems in the network a set of values, each value in the set of values representing an address generation number, each address generation number being associated with at least one generated network address; forming a cyclic group with the set of values, with a mathematical successor function on each value in the set of values; storing a reference to the most recently used value; and generating the least recently used value by applying the successor function to the most recently used value.