Patent ID: 8010666
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for identifying a digital content distributor on a file sharing network, the computer program product being encoded on one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media and comprising: instruction for initiating a content search by submitting a search request to the file sharing network, the search request comprising one or more keywords; instruction for receiving a result of the content search, the result including a suspect file that comprises a plurality of file segments; instruction for downloading each of the file segments by: instruction for utilizing the source information to determine a distributor for each of the file segments; instruction for determining whether the distributor is utilizing a second file sharing protocol; instruction for logging the determination whether the distributor is utilizing the second file sharing protocol; and instruction for combining the stored file segments to form a digital copy of the suspect file.