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Method and System of Administrating a Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Network

  • US 20100161752A1
  • Filed: 12/17/2009
  • Published: 06/24/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of administering a peer-to-peer file sharing computer network, said method comprising:

  • maintaining a reference associating a particular shared file with a seeder in a community of peers and a number of seeders in said community; and

    registering a second peer as a second seeder of said particular shared file, if a first seeder in said community of peers has informed said peers of a termination of the availability of a file seeding of said particular shared file.

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