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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2007
Applicants:
Kyoichi Terao, Nerima-ku, JP;
Itaru Takemura, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kyoichi Terao, Nerima-ku, JP;
Itaru Takemura, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a content delivery method in a P2P network, a content publishing node divides a publish content according to a situation of each downstream node adjacent thereto, and causes each downstream node to hold a divided content, and a content downloading node simultaneously downloads in parallel the divided contents from the plurality of downstream nodes. When a plurality of pieces of tag information on a plurality of divided contents of a same content is received form a downstream node, the plurality of pieces of tag information are merged to be distributed in upstream nodes.