Patent ID: 9535968
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: disseminating an Interest for a data collection; receiving a Content Object that includes a manifest for the data collection, wherein the manifest includes Content Object hash (COH) values for a set of other Content Objects of the data collection; determining a name prefix for a content-hosting service that hosts at least a portion of the data collection; generating a second Interest for a respective Content Object of the data collection, wherein a name for the second Interest includes the name prefix for the content-hosting service, does not indicate a name for the respective Content Object, and includes a COH value for the respective Content Object; disseminating the second Interest to obtain the respective Content Object of the data collection; and verifying the obtained respective Content Object by determining that a computed hash of the respective Content Object matches the COH value included in the name for the second Interest.