US Patent 10356152 Real-time distributed information processing system

Some embodiments relate to a system for processing local information. The system provides feedback of certain information from a central processor to local processors, thus leaving the local processors to decide on the relevance of the individual contribution of same before transmitting the local information thereof. This allows the central processor to obtain all the information it needs in order to perform a real-time merge, while greatly reducing the number of messages transmitted by the local processors.