Patent ID: 9357001
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for location aware mass information distribution to peers, the method comprising: overlaying a distributed hash table (DHT) network over an existing physical communication network to which the peers are connected, wherein the DHT network is a peer to peer (P2P) network; providing at least one application layer multicast (ALM) protocol over the overlayed DHT network to form an ALM tree topology for the peers, wherein the ALM tree topology is based on location information of the peers; providing a service that takes as input a cell-id of a peer and generates as output the geographical location of the peer, wherein the cell-id is an identification of the peer to the physical communication network; comparing the geographical location of the peer to plural micro geographical location areas associated with the ALM tree topology for assigning the peer to a corresponding geographical location area; using the ALM tree topology for establishing logical connections within a geographical group, between a leader of the geographical group and neighbor peers in the geographical group, which are located in a specific geographical area; upon receiving a message to be mass distributed to the neighbor peers, using the overlayed DHT network for establishing physical connections between the leader and the neighbor peers; and mass distributing the message to the neighbor peers using the physical connections.