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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2009
Timothy R. Chavez, Austin, TX (US);
Lisa S. Deluca, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christina K. Lauridsen, Austin, TX (US);
Sushma B. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Robert R. Peterson, Austin, TX (US);
Loulwa F. Salem, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy R. Chavez, Austin, TX (US);
Lisa S. DeLuca, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christina K. Lauridsen, Austin, TX (US);
Sushma B. Patel, Austin, TX (US);
Robert R. Peterson, Austin, TX (US);
Loulwa F. Salem, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for distributing file fragments in the background of a segmented peer-to-peer network using list passing between peers. Rather than trading actual content, peers may trade file names or file fragment identifiers. Upon receiving a new file name or identifier, a peer may request that file from the network, either in the background or the foreground. For example, once a client begins background file sharing in a swarm, the client may propagate file information for files it possesses to all or a portion of the peers in a swarm. Those clients then have the file information for a file without the user having to locate and specifically request that file. The file list may piggyback on a file fragment that is transferred as a result of a file sharing request.