US 2009/0276507 A1 · PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

Abstract

A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system and a method of operating the P2P network system are provided. The P2P network system includes at least one edge peer storing resources and at least one super peer sharing and managing resource information corresponding to the resources of the at least one edge peer. By updating changes in characteristics of peers due to elimination and movement of any one of a plurality of edge peers and super peers included in the P2P network, path reconfiguration may be performed efficiently.

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Dependent claims

A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system comprises:

at least one edge peer for storing resources;
and
at least one super peer for classifying resource information for the resources of the at least one edge peer, for distributing the classified resource information, and for managing the distributed resource information,
wherein the at least one edge peer is registered and connected with the at least one super peer, the at least one super peer generates super peer history information comprising information regarding a path for a request edge peer to request a resource to a destination edge peer connected to the at least one super peer, and the resource is stored in the at least one edge peer.

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A method of operating a peer-to-peer (P2P) network system comprising:

at least one edge peer, for storing resources, being registered and connected with at least super peer, wherein the at least one super peer classifies resource information for the resources of the at least one edge peer, distributes the classified resource information with each other, and manages the distributed resource information;
a request edge peer among the at least one edge peer for transmitting a query for requesting a resource to a destination edge peer storing the resource, through a request super peer with which the request edge peer is connected and a destination super peer with which the destination edge peer is connected and which manages the destination edge peer;
and
the request super peer and the destination super peer generate and store super peer history information including information regarding a path through which the resource is requested, based on the query from the request edge peer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/431,080Filed 28 Apr 2009

Priority

KR 10-2008-04079930 Apr 2008

Published

5 Nov 2009

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

H04L 67/104
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
H04L 67/1068
Using node-based peer discovery mechanisms: discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential…
H04L 67/1093
Using cross-functional networking aspects: some peer nodes performing special functions
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Digital communication

Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same

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Peer-to-peer (p2p) network system and method of operating the same

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Abstract

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