Patent ID: 8463927

Claim:
A system comprising: a first computer system operatively coupled to a peer-to-peer network, the first computer system to address a media stream to a recipient user of a second computer system, the second computer system being an ordinary host node of the peer-to-peer network; a recorder operatively coupled to the first computer system, the recorder to record a video message onto the first computer system, the video message to be included in the media stream; a third computer system designated as a super node on the peer-to-peer network, the third computer system to identify the IP address of the second computer system based on a signifier of the recipient user that is a user name corresponding to the recipient user and to transmit the media stream to the second computer system based on the identified IP address; a fourth computer system designated as a bootstrapping node, the fourth computer system to establish a connection between the super node on the peer-to-peer network and the first computer system; a receiver residing on the second computer system to receive the media stream from the first computer system via the peer-to-peer network; check the signifier of a first user of the first computer system; check memory space of the second computer system; check operability of devices residing on the second computer system; signify that the video message may be stored, where the signifier, the memory space and the operability of the devices are found to be valid; and a storage device residing on the second computer system to store the media stream.