Patent ID: 8892663

Claim:
A gossip-based peer-to-peer (P2P) service apparatus comprising: a membership list receipt device configured to receive a membership list from at least one service node from among a plurality of service nodes that provide a gossip-based P2P service, prior to the gossip-based P2P service apparatus joining the gossip-based P2P service, wherein the membership list comprises access information about partial view nodes of the at least one service node that are members of the gossip-based P2P service; and a temporal partnership request unit configured to select at least one partial view node from the received membership list, transmit a temporal partnership request message to the selected partial view node, and become partners with the at least one partial view node and a member of the gossip-based P2P service based on the access information and without performing a membership process that is based on a probability calculation.