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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Jean-luc Collet, La Gaude, FR;
Beatrice Coulomb, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Francois-xavier Drouet, La Gaude, FR;
Carole Truntschka, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, FR;
Jean-Luc Collet, La Gaude, FR;
Beatrice Coulomb, Cagnes sur Mer, FR;
Francois-Xavier Drouet, La Gaude, FR;
Carole Truntschka, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for administering a peer-to-peer file sharing computer network. The method includes: maintaining a reference associating a particular shared file with a seeder in a community of peers and a number of seeders in the community; and registering a second peer as a second seeder of the particular shared file, if a first seeder in the community of peers has informed the peers of a termination of the availability of a file seeding of the particular shared file. The system includes means for performing the steps of the method. The computer program product includes computer program instructions for carrying out the steps of the method.