Information dissemination method and apparatus having minimal network bandwidth utilization

摘要

An information disseminating apparatus that transmits information between nodes of a network while expending minimal or no network bandwidth for transmitting the information. The apparatus can include a message processor that generates or receives a message to be transmitted from a first node to a second node in the network, and a transmitter that transmits data packets in a sequence that represents the message from the first node to the second node. The apparatus may further include a plurality of queues each associated with a class and services one or more data packets each having a marker that corresponds to the class, and a queue processor that dequeues the data packets from the queues in accordance to the sequence and the class associated with each of the queues.