Patent ID: 7840598

Claim:
Method for distribution of resources to network nodes in a decentralized data network including a plurality of network nodes, with each network node being responsible for a range of index values and each resource being assigned at least one keyword, the method comprising: a) encoding the at least one keyword of a respective resource into a digital bit sequence; b) creating at least one modification of the digital bit sequence of a respective resource by creating a modified bit sequence from the digital bit sequence with, in a modified bit sequence, the bits being replaced by new bits at defined bit positions of the respective digital bit sequence independent of the at least one keyword encoded in accordance with the digital bit sequence; c) mapping at least one of the modified bit sequence and a totality of the modified bit sequences of a respective digital modification onto the indices of the ranges of values of the network node such that, when a network node requests a resource by way of at least one truncated keyword, a search only has to be made in a part of the decentralized data network for indices which correspond to the at least one truncated keyword; and d) allocating the respective resource to the index, onto which at least one of the modified bit sequence and the totality of the modified bit sequences, of at least one of the modification and one of the modifications, is mapped.