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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2010
Nicolas Le Scouarnec, Rennes, FR;
Mary-luc Champel, Marpire, FR;
Nicolas Le Scouarnec, Rennes, FR;
Mary-Luc Champel, Marpire, FR;
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method dedicated to the management of data transmission in peer to peer mode between peers that can connect to a communication network, each transmission being carried out by a peer, following the reception of a request from another peer, according to a selected reciprocity mechanism. When a peer wants to receive from another peer N blocks of data according to a first priority level Xselected in a set of at least two different priority levels, in assigning to this peer an exchange value equivalent to a number M of blocks of data to be transmitted to at least one other peer according to a second priority level Xselected in this set, M being equal to N*m, where mis a predetermined value function of the first Xand second Xselected priority levels.