Patent ID: 7653689
Filing Date: 2010-01-26
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A content delivery system using distributed computing, the system comprising: a peer to peer content delivery network; one or more client download manager applications residing on and being executed by one or more end-user computer resources that are connected to the content delivery network; one or more redistributors applications residing on one or more end-user computer resources that are connected to the content delivery network; a centralized manager that controls the operation of the client download manager application and the redistributors application to manage the storage of content by the redistributors applications and to manage the delivery of content from the redistributors applications to the client download manager applications; wherein each client download manager application downloads content from any one of the one or more redistributors applications of the content delivery system and each redistributors application stores contents of the content delivery network as directed by the centralized manager and wherein the client download manager application and the redistributors application are functionally separated from each other; and wherein the centralized manager prevents content request collisions at end user computer resource having a redistributors application by time separating the requests from a plurality of client download manager applications so that a first client download manager application downloads a portion of a file from a first end user computer resource having a redistributor application and a second client download manager application downloads a different portion of the file from a different end user computer resource having a redistributor application wherein the first and second client download applications switch to the second end user computer resource having a redistributor application and the first end user computer resource having a redistributor application, respectively during a different time period.