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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Yang Guo, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Hao HU, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Yong Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy les moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including receiving buffer maps of neighbor peers, measuring serving rates from the neighbor peers, measuring serving rates to the neighbor peers, requesting a unit of data from one of the neighbor peers responsive to information in the buffer maps of the neighbor peers at a rate responsive to the serving rate from the one of the neighbor peers, receiving incoming requests for units of data, sorting the incoming requests into a plurality of queues, selecting one of the incoming requests to serve responsive to the serving rates to the neighbor peers corresponding to the incoming request, updating the queues and selecting a new neighbor peer.