Patent ID: 8510562
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for transferring content with a peer to peer network, comprising: sending, utilizing instructions stored in memory and executed by a processor, a request from a requesting peer in a first tree of the peer to peer network to a tracker for contacting a serving peer in a second tree of the peer to peer network; receiving a request token, a path identifier, and a landing peer identifier, the landing peer identifier including an identity of a landing peer within the second tree other than the serving peer; sending a request message to a first peer in the first tree, the request message including the request token, the path identifier, and the landing peer identifier; and receiving the content from the serving peer through a transfer path; wherein the request token and the path identifier are received from a second peer in the second tree; wherein a return message is sent to a third peer in the second tree, the return message including the path identifier and a jump point identifier, the jump point identifier including an identity of a fourth peer in the first tree other than the requesting peer; and wherein the transfer path includes the first peer in the first tree, the third peer in the second tree, and the fourth peer in the first tree.