Patent ID: 7698460
Filing Date: 2010-04-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling establishment of a peering session having a high quality of service in a network comprising: receiving, by a connection server, a request for contact information for peers currently available on the network, the request originating from a first peer having IP address information associated therewith; analyzing, by the connection server, stored data records of peers on the network to identify those peers on the network which could satisfy the request by analyzing a connection record for each peer currently on the network, wherein each connection record includes latency information between the a respective peer and a corresponding network address translator and latency information between the respective peer and a corresponding connection server; sorting, by the connection server, the identified data records of the peers on the network that could satisfy the request by stored quality of service information relative to the IP address information of the first peer to form a peer contact list; transmitting, by the connection server, the peer contact list to the first peer.