NAMES RESOLUTION PROTOCOL FOR WIRE CONNECTION OF EQUIVALENT DEVICES AND STRUCTURE OF MESSAGE FORMAT DATE USED IN IT Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC G06F17/00 

FIELD: information technologies.

SUBSTANCE: in structure of message data a range of fields is used, every of which contains a message element. Preferably, the first field is message heading, which includes protocol information and identifies type of message. Each element of message contains a range of fields. These fields of message element include type field, length field and content or effective load of message element. For proper operation of names resolution protocol for connection of equivalent devices at least ten messages are generated, namely the following: RESOLVE ("resolution"), RESPONSE ("reply"), SOLICIT ("solicitation"), ADVERTISE ("announcement"), REQUEST ("request"), FLOOD ("distribution"), INQUIRE ("question"), AUTHORITY ("authority"), ACK ("acknowledgement ), and REPAIR ("correction").

EFFECT: improved reliability of messages processing.

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