Patent ID: 9191438
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying participants in a peer-to-peer network, comprising: sending a bootstrap request message using at least one network to at least one peer to discover one or more additional peers that were previously not identified; receiving, using the at least one network, a response from the at least one peer to the bootstrap request, wherein the response identifies one or more additional peers that were previously not identified; adding, using at least one hardware device, said one or more previously unidentified additional peers to at least one record stored in at least one memory comprising a listing of a group of peers to be contacted; and repeating the sending and receiving steps for the one or more additional peers in said group of peers in the at least one record stored in the at least one memory until the group of peers to be contacted in the at least one record stored in the at least one memory comprises an empty set for a predefined period of time.