32. The method in claim 26 , wherein said Inter-Node Consolidation is set up by communicating updated Consolidation Strings to other data-source nodes in a peer-to-peer fashion.
34. The method in claim 32 , wherein said peer-to-peer communication of updated Consolidation Strings occurs in a batch process via network communications substantially simultaneously from the communication-originating data-source node to all other data-source nodes.