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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2006
Richard J. Walsh, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alfredo C. Issa, Apex, NC (US);
Sid Stafford, Durham, NC (US);
James Evans, Apex, NC (US);
Richard J. Walsh, Raleigh, NC (US);
Alfredo C. Issa, Apex, NC (US);
Sid Stafford, Durham, NC (US);
James Evans, Apex, NC (US);
Quiro Holdings, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for controlling Quality of Service (QoS), content quality, or both QoS and content quality in a content sharing network based on user relationships. More specifically, QoS, content quality, or both QoS and content quality may be controlled based on a relationship of a user of a network node requesting content and either a user of a network node hosting the requested content or an owner of the requested content, a relationship between the user of the network node requesting the content and the content, or any combination thereof.