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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2002
Brian D. Goodman, Roxbury, CT (US);
John W. Rooney, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Ramesh Subramanian, Woodbury, CT (US);
William C. Sweeney, Norwalk, CT (US);
Brian D. Goodman, Roxbury, CT (US);
John W. Rooney, New Fairfield, CT (US);
Ramesh Subramanian, Woodbury, CT (US);
William C. Sweeney, Norwalk, CT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A peer-to-peer network has a server that maintains a list of addresses of clients connected to the peer-to-peer network. The server generates seed lists for each of the clients connected to the network from the server maintained list. The clients conduct peer-to-peer searches using the seed list provided by the server. The seed lists may be either randomly generated or generated to facilitate network objectives. The clients may periodically request seed list refreshing. The peer-to-peer network may further include authentication and authorization search security checks.