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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
LI Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Li Gong, Los Altos, CA (US);
William J. Yeager, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdelaziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael J. Duigou, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Pouyoul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Christophe Hugly, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing peer groups in a peer-to-peer environment. A peer group may be one or more peers in a peer-to-peer environment that share a set of network services and content. A peer group may define an implicit scope for messages originating from members peers of the peer group. A peer group may provide redundant services and content for greater reliability. In one embodiment, interaction among peers and peer groups in the peer-to-peer environment may be implemented using protocols that are platform-independent as to programming language implementations and network transports. In one embodiment, peers may discover existing peer groups and join the existing peer groups. In one embodiment, peers may create new peer groups.