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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2007
Joseph Czechowski, Iii, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William David Smith, Ii, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xi Wang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher Duane Carothers, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph Czechowski, III, Clifton Park, NY (US);
William David Smith, II, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xi Wang, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Christopher Duane Carothers, Schenectady, NY (US);
NBCUniversal Media, LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The acceleration of peer-to-peer downloads of content files wherein a tracker performs a condition based peer selection that is dynamically adjustable. A further feature relates to the use of enhanced message scheme for communications. One embodiment is a system in a swarm having at least one origin seed capable of at least initially storing the content files with at least one tracker maintaining a list of peers wherein the tracker uses at least one dynamically adjusting peer selection algorithm to generate a condition based peer-list and provides the condition based peer-list to a requesting peer.