Patent ID: 8296393

Claim:
An information handling system, comprising: a result server and a file server, wherein said information handling system is configured to act as a node in a peer-to-peer network, said peer-to-peer network being organized loosely without any centralized management authority, said information handling system being further configured to follow rules and protocols of the de-centralized peer-to-peer network, wherein the information handling system serves material to request issuing peers of the peer-to-peer network, said material being digitally encoded within a content file that contains at least one advertisement, and wherein when the material encoded within the content file is utilized, a programmatic code executing upon a machine is triggered that presents the contained at least one advertisement, the result server comprising at least one computer processor, an input receiving component, a search engine, and a server logic that execute upon the at least one computer processor, and the file server controlling a database of stored content files, wherein each of the content files digitally encodes a material and contains at least one advertisement; said input receiving component configured to probe a peer-to-peer network traffic to discover file search requests from the request issuing peers, said search requests seeking one or more specified files; said search engine configured to search a database for names of files satisfying a discovered file search request; and said server logic configured to serve a results page to a request issuing peer, said results page comprising the names of a set of one or more files satisfying the discovered search request and a hyperlink associated with each file name; wherein each hyperlink, when activated, causes transmission of a request to the file server for material associated with the hyperlink; and wherein the file server responds to the request by serving the content file comprising a copy of the requested material and the contained at least one advertisement.