Patent ID: 11968257
Assignee: TURBINEONE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of pruning a distributed database for a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the method comprising:
transmitting a first multicast beacon over the P2P network;
receiving a unicast synchronization request in response to the first multicast beacon, the unicast synchronization request comprising a removed list for the distributed database;
comparing the removed list to a locally stored node list to determine a node removal;
determining if there is a failure in a node information call made to a node relating to the node removal;
subsequent to a determination of the failure, updating the locally stored node list based on the node removal; and
transmitting a second multicast beacon comprising the node removal, wherein nodes that receive the second multicast beacon update a locally stored removed list using the node removal.