Patent ID: 8321539

Claim:
A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system comprises: at least one edge peer for storing resources; and at least one super peer for classifying resource information for the resources of the at least one edge peer, for distributing the classified resource information, and for managing the distributed resource information, wherein the at least one edge peer is registered and connected with the at least one super peer, the at least one super peer generates super peer history information to be used to search for resources that comprise information regarding a request edge peer and a destination edge peer, when the request edge peer requests a resource from the destination edge peer connected to the at least one super peer, and the resource is stored in the at least one edge peer, and wherein the super peer history information comprises a count area for storing a count value, the count value representing a frequency at which the super peer history information is generated when the request edge peer requests the resource.