Patent ID: 7203753

Claim:
A peer computing system comprising: a plurality of peer nodes; wherein the plurality of peer nodes are each configured to participate on a network with others of the plurality of peer nodes in areas of interest and to exchange codats relevant to the areas of interest with the other peer nodes, wherein a codat is computer-representable content or data; wherein one of the plurality of peer nodes is configured to: locate a provider peer node comprising one or more codats relevant to a particular area of interest, wherein there is a network path comprising one or more of the plurality of peer nodes between the peer node and the provider peer node; determine codat confidence in the one or more codats, wherein codat confidence is confidence in the relevance of a codat to the particular area of interest; if the codat confidence is above a confidence threshold, access the one or more codats from the provider peer node; and if the codat confidence is not above the confidence threshold, not access the one or more codats from the provider peer node.