Establishing values for stations in a network and disconnecting old, low value stations

摘要

Over an existing internet work, such as the Internet, individual systems, identified as reception stations (B201/B) establish connections with a plurality of supplying stations (B202, 203, 204/B). A valuation process (B206/B) establishes the value of each of the connected supplying stations. An ordering process (B207/B) identifies one or more connected supplying stations that provide a relatively low value. A reconnection process (B208/B) disconnects one or more of the old connections (B202/B) of low value and connects one or more replacement supplying stations (B205/B).