Patent ID: 8219612

Claim:
Method for managing the transmission of data in peer to peer mode between peers connected to at least one communication network, each transmission being carried out by a peer following the reception of a request from another peer, according to a selected reciprocity mechanism of a tit for tat type, the method comprising: assigning an exchange value to a first peer, when the first peer wants to receive from a second peer N blocks of data according to a first priority level X k selected in a set of at least two different priority levels, wherein said exchange value is equivalent to a number M of blocks of data that said first peer commits to transmit to at least one other peer according to a second priority level X k ′ selected in said set, in exchange for the reception of N blocks of data according to said first priority level selected X k , M being equal to N*m kk′ , where m kk′ is a predetermined value function of said first X k and second X k′ selected priority levels.