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SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING QUALITY OF SERVICE-ENABLED CONTENTS IN PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS

  • US 20080208976A1
  • Filed: 10/15/2007
  • Published: 08/28/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A quality-of-service (QoS)-enabled service system on a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, the system comprising:

  • a service provider which provides digital content;

    a plurality of user nodes which receive the digital content from the service provider;

    one or more donor nodes which lend resources for providing the digital content; and

    a supernode which receives information on the user nodes and the donor nodes, and a copy of digital content from the service provider, allows exchange of digital content among the user nodes by P2P networking, and if at least one user node experiences a P2P networking error during the exchange of the digital content, arranges for at least one donor node from among the one or more donor nodes to join the P2P networking.

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