Patent ID: 7797375

Claim:
A method for responding to a resource request made by a requesting user node in a network of user nodes, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, via publication from a publish-subscribe server node, the resource request at a first user node of the network; receiving, at the first user node from one of the user nodes through a direct connection, a response to the resource request; determining at the first user node whether to send the received response from the first user node to the requesting user node, or to send the received response from the first user node to another of the user nodes; forwarding the received response from the first user node to a second user node of the network, when it is determined to send the received response from the first user node to another of the user nodes; and sending the received response from the first user node to the requesting user node, when it is determined to send the received response from the first user node to the requesting user node.