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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2009
Dekai LI, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Ashwin Kashyap, Mountain View, CA (US);
Saurabh Mathur, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Hang Liu, Yardley, PA (US);
Dekai Li, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Ashwin Kashyap, Mountain View, CA (US);
Saurabh Mathur, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Mingquan Wu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Hang Liu, Yardley, PA (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method is described including requesting content from a directory service, receiving a list of peers in a peer-to-peer network having the requested content, selecting a peer from the received list of peers, establishing communications with the selected peer, receiving a list of chunks of content and ads available from the selected peer, requesting a chunk of content and ads available from said selected peer and receiving the chunk of content and randomly selected ads from the selected peer. Also described is a method including receiving a request for content, generating a list of chunks of content available for the requested content, generating a list of ads associated with the requested content, transmitting the list of available chunks of content responsive to the request, receiving a request for a selected chunk of content and transmitting the selected chunk of content and ads associated with the selected chunk of content.