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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2007
Aamer Hydrie, Seattle, WA (US);
Anders E. Klemets, Redmond, WA (US);
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
John Miller, Cambridge, GB;
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Barcelona, ES;
Rebecca C. Weiss, Vienna, VA (US);
Aamer Hydrie, Seattle, WA (US);
Anders E. Klemets, Redmond, WA (US);
Christos Gkantsidis, Cambridge, GB;
John Miller, Cambridge, GB;
Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Barcelona, ES;
Rebecca C. Weiss, Vienna, VA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A topology management process is implemented in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds using tracker nodes. Tracker nodes have information about available peers and assist peers in finding other peers to connect to. Various algorithms for use at the tracker nodes are described for selecting which peers to return as potentials for forming connections to. In addition, architectures and algorithms to allow efficient scaling of tracker nodes in peer-to-peer clouds are described.