Patent ID: 7873690

Claim:
Method for managing requests for obtaining peer identifiers, constituted by communication equipment (Ti) storing content data, connected to at least one communication network (R 1 ) and operating in peer-to-peer mode, consisting, in case of reception of a request for obtaining peer identifiers, said request designating content originating from a peer (Ti), in: i) determining the location of a leaf (Fi) associated to said requesting peer (Ti) among leaves of a tree structure, in which said leaves are respectively associated to identifiers of peers (Ti) storing content data, said content being associated to content identifiers and being attached to nodes called location nodes (NLj) associated to location information, representative of location of peers (Ti) associated to leaves (Fi) that are attached to them, and to content information, representative of at least content identifiers stored by said peers, then ii) determining, through upwards movements along the tree structure starting from the identified leaf (Li), a location node (NLj) associated to content information representative of the content identifier that is designated in said received request, then determining the identifiers of peers (Ti′) associated to the leaves (Fi′) that are attached to said determined location node (NLj) and that are associated to content information representative of the content identifier that is designated in said received request, and iii) transmitting to said requesting peer (Ti) said determined identifiers of peers (Ti′).