Patent ID: 9553914
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of replicating data in a peer-to-peer network including a plurality of devices each device comprising a memory, each device storing a plurality of data items, the method comprising, at a first device: checking whether a second device is able to provide a data item desired by the first device: when the second device does not have the desired data item, computing a transfer value for each data item; identifying whether there are one or more data items that the second device can provide, which have a higher transfer value than one of the data items that the first device currently holds, each transfer value of a data item being determined by: transmitting, to the memory of the first device, a copy of a data item stored on the second device and having the largest transfer value; wherein the method exchanges multimedia data for use by other peer-to-peer network devices.