Patent ID: 8856327
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling dissemination of content in a peer-to-peer network comprising mobile peers having wireless communication capacities, wherein in said peer-to-peer network, some time delay exists between a time at which a mobile peer requests a content item and the time at which said mobile peer obtains said content item, and, each time a peer receives a content item said peer had requested and which is associated to a request counter, the method comprises the steps of: i) storing said content item into a cache memory of said peer; ii) authorizing said peer to generate at most N replications of said content item for other peers said peer will meet and which does not possess said content item, where N is an integer value depending on a current value V iii) associating a replication counter to said content item, with an initial value V