Patent ID: 7849139
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of searching information located within a plurality of peer-devices wherein said plurality of peer-devices store information in the form of reports and communicate by a short-range wireless network, comprising the steps of: (a) initiating a multihop search, represented by a query, by an originator in said plurality of peer-devices wherein said originator does not need to know the locations of searched reports; (b) transmitting said query by said originator to at least one neighbor of said originator, wherein a neighbor is an additional peer-device in said plurality of peer-devices that is within transmission range of a transmitter; (c) selecting queries and reports from local storage by set X of peer-devices from said plurality of peer-devices that receive queries or reports, and transmitting selected queries and reports to neighbors of said set X; (d) repeating step 1 (c) recursively; and (e) ranking reports by a peer-device P wherein the rank of said report R