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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2000
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
Daniel Joseph Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
Paul Nicholas Gartside, Milton Keynes, GB;
Graham Arthur Makinson, Oxford, GB;
Nicholas Paul Kelly, Milton Keynes, GB;
Lee Codel Lawson Tarbotton, Leicester, GB;
Daniel Joseph Wolff, Aylesbury, GB;
Paul Nicholas Gartside, Milton Keynes, GB;
Graham Arthur Makinson, Oxford, GB;
Nicholas Paul Kelly, Milton Keynes, GB;
Networks Associates Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A source computerhaving a copy of a computer file that it is desired to download to a plurality of target computers issues broadcast messages via a computer network linked to those target computers. The broadcast messages indicate the availability of the computer file for download and include a download qualifying parameter. The download qualifying parameter is used by receiving target computers to determine whether or not they qualify to attempt a download from the source computer in response to the received broadcast message. Only those target computers that do qualify attempt a download. The source computer monitors how many target computers make a download attempt in response to a particular broadcast message and adjusts the download qualifying parameters in subsequent broadcast messages so that the target computers progressively download the new computer file without overloading the source computer.