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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2013
Excalibur Ip, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chyr-Song Ting, San Marcos, CA (US);
Chyr-Chong Ting, San Jose, CA (US);
EXCALIBUR IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Facilitating browser access to cached content available from a peer to peer network by receiving a request for content from a content server, receiving from the content server content metadata indicating that the requested content is available from at least one alternative user computing device via a peer to peer network, instantiating on the user computing device a browser helper application which facilitates access to the peer to peer network, and receiving from the content server a lookup table comprising a list of alternative user computing devices from which the requested content is available. The lookup table can be parsed to select an alternative user computing device from which the content, or portions thereof, is requested. The received content can the be stored for later use or presented to the user via the browser.