Patent ID: 8346936

Claim:
A resource-node operable in a peer-to-peer network comprising: an interface to a network for occasional connecting to at least one of a plurality of channel swarms; and a transience mechanism for controlling a lifetime of the resource node in the at least one of the plurality of channel swarms by setting a transience parameter value to different predefined transience levels over time, wherein the transience mechanism periodically sends the transience parameter value to consumer-nodes in the peer-to-peer (P2P) network, each of the consumer-nodes connects to the resource-node for consuming #s-resources according to the transience parameter value, wherein the transience parameter value is set to a value of a join-start when the resource-node joins to at least one of the channel-swarms, wherein the join-start level indicates a high likelihood that the resource-node will disconnect from the channel swarm.