Patent ID: 8112479
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for establishing a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection in a P2P network, comprising: receiving a resource request by a management node in the P2P network; selecting at least one peer meeting requirements from a resource list and returning the selected at least one peer to a resource request peer by the management node, the resource list being pre-created according to register information of peers other than the management node in the P2P network; establishing a connection between the resource request peer and the selected at least one peer meeting the requirements; sending a capability exhaustion notification to the management node if a serviceable resource or a capability of the at least one peer meeting the requirements has exhausted; ceasing allocating a task to the at least one peer meeting the requirements whose serviceable resource or capability have exhausted and updating the serviceable resource and the capability of the at least one peer meeting the requirements whose serviceable resource or capability have exhausted in the resource list by the management node, in response to receiving the capability exhaustion notification; sending a capability resumption notification to the management node after the at least one peer meeting the requirements whose serviceable resource or capability have exhausted resumes the capability; and updating by the management node the serviceable resource and the capability of the at least one peer meeting the requirements whose serviceable resource or capability have exhausted in the resource list, in response to receiving the capability resumption notification.