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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Rita Y. Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Rita Y. Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a system and method for using mobile agents for managing distribution of content in peer-to-peer networks. An initiating peer node may launch a mobile agent including an itinerary of a group of peer nodes configured to receive and share content from a distributor. The mobile agent may visit the peer nodes on the itinerary to search for and collect information on distributor content stored on the visited peer nodes. The mobile agent may return the payload to the initiating peer node after completing the itinerary. In one embodiment, the mobile agent may include authentication information, and each visited peer node may access the authentication information to verify the mobile agent as authorized by the distributor. The initiating peer node may examine the information provided by the mobile agent to detect unauthorized copies of the distributor content.