Patent ID: 8055788
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A network architecture for person-to-person communication, the network architecture comprising: a structured-overlay architecture that includes node identifier assignments for persons in a network wherein the node identifier assignments have a structure that includes locality information; a peer-to-peer device of a plurality of peer-to-peer devices coupled to each other via the network and including local routing tables configured to provide routing for individual persons to make contact with other persons according to the node identifier assignments; and automatic procedures configured to modify the routing tables, for a respective person, to provide routing data for other persons most frequently accessed by that respective person, wherein the node identifier assignments are ring-structured, and include hashed domain information and hashed information of an individual person, and wherein the hashed domain information is configured to occupy more significant bit positions than the hashed information of the individual person.