Patent ID: 8024723
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06F,H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of peer-to-peer datacasting in a broadcasting network, the method comprising: establishing a peer-to-peer relationship between a first peer and at least one other peer in the broadcasting network, where a source provides a most recent version of an updatable software object with the source communicating the most recent version of the software object to at least one peer in the broadcasting network with the software object being further transmitted via peer-to-peer datacasting to at least one other peer in the broadcasting network; receiving, at the first peer, an update request for the software object from a second peer; obtaining, at the first peer, the most recent version of the software object associated with the update request wherein the obtaining comprises: determining whether the first peer includes the most recent version of the software object; transmitting, at the first peer, the update request to the source if the first peer does not include the most recent version; and receiving, at the first peer, the requested most recent version of the software object from the source; transmitting, at the first peer, the requested most recent version of the software object to the second peer; to update the software object of the second peer with the received software object; wherein the first peer is a first client device including a first processor and the second peer is a second client device including a second processor.