Patent ID: 8819237
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring search requests for selected objects by a node on a decentralized peer to peer network, said network having at least two nodes, and providing a response to substantially all of such requesting nodes, said method comprising the steps of: a. interposing at least one pseudonode on said network, said at least one pseudonode configured to provide at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID, said at least one pseudonode having at least one stored object corresponding to a requested object stored at said at least one pseudonode; b. monitoring said network through the at least one pseudonode to detect search requests matching said at least one stored object; c. acquiring a unique search ID associated with the detected search request, the unique search ID generated by any network node requesting said object matching said at least one stored object; d. responding to substantially each such requesting node with search results matching the unique search ID, the search results indicating that one or more selected nodes in the decentralized peer to peer network have the requested object when in fact the one or more selected nodes do not have the requested is object; e. each such requesting node receiving the search results and utilizing the search results to try to obtain the requested object from the one or more selected nodes; and f. each such requesting node failing to obtain the requested object since the one or more selected nodes indicated in the search results do not have the requested object.