Patent ID: 7865715

Claim:
A method for increasing peer privacy, comprising: forming a path from a provider to a requestor by selecting a plurality of peers in response to receiving a request for information; updating a table on each peer of said plurality of peers with a respective path index entry for said information; transmitting a message to said requestor through said plurality of peers, said message comprising said information and a path index for said information from said provider; determining a next peer according to said path for said information by searching said table of each peer of said plurality of peers with said path index as an index into said table; retrieving an identity of said next peer according to said path for said information and a respective index peer of said next peer; encrypting, by a processor, said path index with a public key of said respective index peer of said next peer to form a next state of said path index; and transmitting a new message with said information and said next state of said path index as said path index to said next peer.