Patent ID: 8880585

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first one of a plurality of peers configured to communicate with at least one of a plurality of second ones of the peers on a peer-to-peer network, each one of the peers comprising a computer system including a processor and a memory; a quorum sensing application implemented in the first one of the peers, the quorum sensing application being configured to: receive a message originating in a second one of the peers, the message including at least one peer identifier listed in association with a corresponding at least one property value; write the at least one peer identifier in association with the corresponding at least one property value in a memory associated with the first one of the peers when the at least one peer identifier does not exist in the memory; detect whether a quorum of peer identifiers exist in the memory that are associated with respective property values that match a predefined criteria; and implement a predefined action in the first one of the peers upon detecting the quorum.