Patent ID: 8219614

Claim:
An edge peer device, comprising: a first peer device connection management unit for allowing the edge peer device to participate in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network through a connection to a super peer device or a Personal Area Network (PAN) gateway device, and establishing a pipe connection to other edge peer device or the PAN gateway device to transmit or receive contents; a first peer device authentication unit for performing authentication of the edge peer device through the super peer device and an authentication server; a first advertisement management unit for generating and storing advertisements which notifies the P2P network of edge peer information and indexing the generated advertisements to transmit the indexed advertisements to the super peer device; a first PAN device management unit for requesting and receiving a list of PAN devices from the PAN gateway device to manage the PAN device list after the PAN gateway device has been found; a first PAN service management unit for managing and providing services included in the PAN device list; and a first P2P communication unit for performing P2P communication with the super peer device and other peer devices.