US Patent 7362758 Data distribution apparatus and method

Patent 7362758 was granted and assigned to 1E on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7362758

Date of Patent

April 22, 2008

Patent Application Number

11035022

Date Filed

January 14, 2005

Patent Primary Examiner

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Duc Ho

Patent abstract

Embodiments of the invention are concerned with data distribution apparatus, for use on each of a plurality of machines in distributing a set of data over a network amongst said machines. The apparatus comprises:i) multicast apparatus for use in multicasting said set of data over the network for receipt by others of said machines; andii) a data retrieval arrangement for use in retrieving data from a set of data previously multicast by at least one of said machines, and supplying retrieved data to the multicast apparatus for use in multicasting the retrieved data over the network to others of the plurality of machines,wherein more than one of said plurality of machines is enabled to act as a multicast source in distributing the set of data over the network.