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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2003
System and method for creating improved overlay network with an efficient distributed data structure
Nicholas J. Harvey, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael B. Jones, Redmond, WA (US);
Stefan Saroiu, Seattle, WA (US);
Marvin M. Theimer, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alastair Wolman, Seattle, WA (US);
Atul Adya, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nicholas J. Harvey, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael B. Jones, Redmond, WA (US);
Stefan Saroiu, Seattle, WA (US);
Marvin M. Theimer, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alastair Wolman, Seattle, WA (US);
Atul Adya, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for using skip nets to build and maintain overlay networks for peer-to-peer systems. A skip net is a distributed data structure that can be used to avoid some of the disadvantages of distributed hash tables by organizing data by key ordering. Skip nets can use logarithmic state per node and probabilistically support searches, insertions and deletions in logarithmic time.