Patent ID: 7698386

Claim:
A method for serving content from a peer server in a photosharing peer-to-peer network, wherein the peer server stores a web album and at least one associated digital image, the method comprising: (a) prior to the peer server going off-line, synchronizing the peer server with a proxy server and a guest content server by: (i) copying a web page descriptor defining the web album from the peer server to the guest content server; and (ii) copying an image associated with the web album from the peer server to the proxy server; and (b) in response to a request from a requesting computer to view content stored in the peer server when the peer server is off-line, fulfilling the request by forwarding the web album generated with the web page descriptor from the guest content server to the requesting computer via the proxy server, and forwarding the image associated with the web album from the proxy server to the requesting computer, thereby successfully serving content from the peer server even when the peer server is off-line.