Patent ID: 8838683

Claim:
A method of receiving predetermined data, performed by a first device, the method comprising: receiving, by the first device provided without a peer-to-peer (P2P) client function, from a server information about data that can be received via at least one P2P network and information about at least one peer respectively connected to each of the at least one P2P network; selecting the predetermined data based on the information received from the server about the data that can be received via the at least one P2P network; selecting, by the first device, a second device to receive the predetermined data based on the information about the at least one peer; and receiving the predetermined data without the P2P client function via the second device from the at least one peer connected to a first P2P network of the at least one P2P network which can receive the predetermined data, wherein the information about the data and the information about the at least one peer is directly received from the server by a data information receiving unit of the first device, and wherein the predetermined data is indirectly received via the second device from the at least one peer by a data receiving unit of the first device.