Patent ID: 9177328
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for chatting in a peer-to-peer computer network, the method comprising: joining, by a computer system, an advertisement peer-to-peer network by establishing a connection with a plurality of peers that are part of the advertisement peer-to-peer network; receiving, by the computer system via the advertisement peer-to-peer network, a chat room advertisement identifying a chat room; responsive to receiving a request from a user of the computer system to join the identified chat room, calculating, by the computer system for each of the plurality of peers, a difference between an identifier associated with the peer and an identifier associated with the chat room; selecting, by the computer system a peer from the plurality of peers based on the selected peer having the lowest calculated difference; requesting, by the computer system from the selected peer, connection information associated with peers that are part of the chat room; and responsive to receiving connection information from the selected peer, joining, by the computer system, the chat room using the received connection information.