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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2004
Carla Marceau, Ithaca, NY (US);
Matthew A. Stillerman, Ithaca, NY (US);
Carla Marceau, Ithaca, NY (US);
Matthew A. Stillerman, Ithaca, NY (US);
Architecture Technology Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A peer-to-peer (P2P) networking system is disclosed that provides a large, persistent object repository with the ability to easily scale to significant size. Data security is provided using a distributed object data access mechanism to grant access to data objects to authorized users. Data objects stored within the object repository are provided a plurality of security options including plain text data, objects, encrypted data objects, and secure, secret sharing data objects. A data object query processing component permits users to locate requested information within the P2P networking system.