Patent ID: 7305375
Filing Date: 2007-12-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for handling requests for a resource within a network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request for a resource; searching, by an initial server, for the resource in a local storage device of the initial server; determining that the resource is not found in the local storage device of the initial server, and sending the request for the resource to a plurality of servers different from the initial server, wherein, if the request for the resource is not capable of being serviced by any of the plurality of servers, the request for the resource is sent to a plurality of neighbouring servers that are neighbours to the plurality of servers, wherein two or more of the plurality of servers are servers accessible by the transmission of the request from the initial server to the plurality of servers via a multicast method; and specifying, by a user of the user device from which the request for resource originated, a time limit for receiving the resource from when the request was output, wherein all network connections between the user device and the plurality of servers with respect to the request are dropped when the time limit is reached if the resource has not been provided to the user device within the time limit.