Patent ID: 9344438
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method operational on a joining node for generating a node identifier of the joining node for use with a peer-to-peer overlay network, comprising: generating an initial contribution value for use in generating the node identifier of the joining node; sending a join request to an introducer node of the peer-to-peer overlay network, where the join request seeks to obtain a plurality of contribution values from a plurality of contributor nodes within the overlay network for use in generating the node identifier of the joining node from within an identifier space of the overlay network; receiving a join response from the introducer node, the join response including the plurality of contribution values obtained from the plurality of contributor nodes via the introducer node, wherein the plurality of contribution values are bound to each other and to the initial contribution value by a prior external multi-node commitment operation; and generating the node identifier of the joining node based on the initial contribution value and the plurality of received contribution values included in the join response wherein the node identifier is generated as a function of the initial contribution value and the plurality of received contribution values included in the join response.