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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2006
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
John Miller, Cambridge, GB;
Manuel Costa, Cambridge, GB;
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Barcelona, ES;
Stuart Ranson, Cambridge, GB;
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
John Miller, Cambridge, GB;
Manuel Costa, Cambridge, GB;
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Barcelona, ES;
Stuart Ranson, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A wire protocol is described which implements connection management and other methods to give enhanced peer-to-peer content distribution. Connections between nodes can be placed in a 'notify' state when they are idle but may soon yield useful content. This notify state is also used together with a content request/response cycle to allow a peer to evaluate content available at a neighbour. If no suitable content is available a notify state is entered. When new content is later received at the neighbour it is able to inform the requesting node to allow it to restart the content request/response cycle.