Patent ID: 11863380
Assignee: PLANETARY DATA LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A computer-implemented method for managing content delivery within a community internet drive, the community internet drive comprising a plurality of client machines each having a local storage device partitioned into a private portion and a shared portion, wherein each shared portion is included in the community internet drive and each private portion is excluded from the community internet drive, the method comprising:
tracking each content of a plurality of content uploaded to the community internet drive and any of one or more duplicate copies of each content of the plurality of content, wherein the tracking comprises one or more of metadata comparisons, direct file inspection, direct data inspection, hash comparisons, tracking associations generated from past successful copy events, and wherein the one or more duplicate copies of the each content is a result of a download of the each content completed by the one or more other client machines of the plurality of client machines of the community internet drive;
publishing content availability in response to receiving publication notice from one or more publishers associated with one or more client machines within the community drive; and
servicing requests for content delivery of the plurality of content from one or more client machines within the community internet drive.