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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
David A. George, Somers, NY (US);
Raymond B. Jennings, Iii, Ossining, NY (US);
Jason D. Lavoie, Mahopac, NY (US);
David A. George, Somers, NY (US);
Raymond B. Jennings, III, Ossining, NY (US);
Jason D. LaVoie, Mahopac, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for reducing spam in peer-to-peer networks includes forming a search message including at least one decoy word and sending the search request message, including the decoy word(s), to one or more nodes in the network. Embodiments of the present invention make it possible to weed out nodes in the network that send spam in response to every search message (e.g., regardless of the search message's content).