TOPOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN PEER-TO-PEER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION CLOUDS

Patent №

US 8,364,758

Granted

2013-01-29

Filed 2009

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12279823

A topology management process is implemented in peer-to-peer content distribution clouds using tracker nodes. Tracker nodes have information about available peers and assist peers in finding other peers to connect to. Various algorithms for use at the tracker nodes are described for selecting which peers to return as potentials for forming connections to. In addition, architectures and algorithms to allow efficient scaling of tracker nodes in peer-to-peer clouds are described.

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AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.12
Knowledge representation0.05
Natural language0.02
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 221380941

Assignors

HYDRIE, AAMER, KLEMETS, ANDERS E., GKANTSIDIS, CHRISTOS, MILLER, JOHN L., RODRIGUEZ, PABLO RODRIGUEZ, WEISS, REBECCA C.

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