Patent ID: 8301724
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for distributing media files over a peer-to-peer network, the method comprising: configuring an information handling system to act as a node in the peer-to-peer network, said peer-to-peer network being organized loosely without any centralized management authority, said information handling system being further configured to follow rules and protocols of the de-centralized peer-to-peer network, the information handling system comprising a result server and a file server; controlling, with the file server, a database of stored media files, wherein each of the stored media files encodes a material and contains embedded executable code, said embedded executable code causing at least one advertisement to be presented to request issuing peers of the peer-to-peer network each time a requested media file is utilized; probing, with the result server, network traffic to discover file search requests from the request issuing peers, said file search requests seeking one or more materials; searching, with the result server, a database for names of media files satisfying a discovered file search request; and conveying, with the result server, search results to a request issuing peer, said search results comprising names of a set of one or more media files satisfying the discovered file search request and a link associated with each file name in the set,