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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2002
Applicants:
Scot Loach, Waterloo, CA;
Don Bowman, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Scot Loach, Waterloo, CA;
Don Bowman, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
Sandvine Incorporated, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for administering Peer to Peer (P2P) query messages within a P2P network. The present invention collects a plurality of metrics for each host that it is aware of in a P2P network, most often by a host information or query hit message. The metrics collected aid in determining a set of P2P hosts best able to fulfill a query message, without having knowledge of specific content. The metrics collected also aid in managing query messages in that they determine when to drop query messages or when to resend query messages.