Patent ID: 7685301

Claim:
A method of minimizing redundancy in a peer system in a peer-to-peer relay network, comprising: receiving a first message including first identification information at a first peer system from a second peer system connected to said first peer system in a peer-to-peer relay network; storing said first identification information; receiving a second message including second identification information at said first peer system from a third peer system connected to said first peer system in said peer-to-peer relay network; comparing said second identification information with said first identification information; building a redundancy update message when said comparison of said first identification information to said second identification information identifies the first message and the second message as the same message, wherein said redundancy update message is a message indicating that the first peer system is not to receive a new message from the third peer system because the new message has a path to the first peer system which allows the first peer system to receive the new message from a different peer system first, wherein the redundancy update message comprises information identifying the first peer system as a recipient peer system and information identifying the third peer system as a source peer system and indicates that a next message from the source peer system is not to be sent to the recipient peer system; and sending said redundancy update message to said third peer system.