Patent ID: 8095630
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A network system for providing a network booting (NB) of at least one client therein, comprising: a torrent-based peer-to-peer (P2P) system imposed on the network system, wherein the at least one client is a peer in the P2P system; and at least one host operable as a source in the torrent-based P2P system to provide at least one NB application to the at least one client through the torrent-based P2P system for network booting of the at least one client, wherein the torrent-based P2P system includes a torrent file associated with the network booting, the torrent file containing metadata related to the at least one NB application and a pointer to a tracker that identifies the at least one host containing the at least one NB application, and wherein the at least one client is provided with a torrent agent operable to identify the torrent file, obtain the metadata related to the at least one NB application and the pointer to the tracker from the identified torrent file, receive the at least one NB application from the at least one host based on the obtained tracker, and validate the received NB application using the obtained metadata.