FAULT-TOLERANT COMMUNICATION IN ROUTED NETWORKS Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC H04L12/28 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method for providing fault-tolerant network communication between a plurality of nodes for an application includes providing a plurality of initial communication pathways over a plurality of networks coupled between the plurality of nodes, and receiving a data packet on a sending node from the application. The sending node is one of the plurality of nodes, and the data packet is addressed by the application to an address on one of the plurality of nodes. The method also comprises a step for selecting a first selected pathway for the data packet from among the plurality of initial communication pathways, where the first selected pathway is a preferred pathway.

EFFECT: providing fault-tolerant communication for a computer network through unique architectures of the network stack, which require minimum consideration by an application software acting on nodes connected in the network.

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