P2P NETWORK SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110082943A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KWON, O-hoon, HA, Ho-jin, IM, Sung-Bin
• Application Number:
  US12/731,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20110082943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1078 Resource delivery mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1091 Interfacing with client-server systems or between P2P systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/236 Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, e.g. inserting a URL [Uniform Resource Locator] into a video stream, multiplexing software data into a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bit-rate; Assembling of a packetised elementary stream multiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6405 Multicasting data broadcast and multicast in packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content

Abstract

A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system is provided. The P2P network system includes a server which groups transmission unit packets constituting a data stream into a group according to a predetermined time unit and provides the group of the transmission unit packets, and a plurality of peer devices which transmit and receive the group of the transmission unit packets.

Claims

1. A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system comprising:

a server which groups transmission unit packets of a data stream into a group according to a predetermined time unit and provides the group of the transmission unit packets; and

a plurality of peer devices which receive and transmit the group of the transmission unit packets.

2. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the server comprises:

a source providing unit which provides the data stream;

a data constitution unit which receives the data stream from the source providing unit and groups the transmission unit packets of the data stream into the group according to the predetermined time unit; and

a data transmission and reception unit which transmits the group of the transmission unit packets.

3. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data constitution unit groups the transmission unit packets using time information included in the data stream.

4. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the time information is presentation time stamp (PTS) information.

5. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the group includes at least one piece of PTS information.

6. A server of a P2P network system, comprising:

a source providing unit which provides a data stream;

a data constitution unit which receives the data stream from the source providing unit and groups transmission unit packets of the data stream in a group according to a predetermined time unit; and

a data transmission and reception unit which transmits the group of the transmission unit packets.

7. The server as claimed in claim 6, wherein the data constitution unit groups the transmission unit packets using time information included in the data stream.

8. The server as claimed in claim 7, wherein the time information is presentation time stamp (PTS) information.

9. The server as claimed in claim 8, wherein the group includes at least one piece of PTS information.

10. The server as claimed in claim 9, wherein the group includes at least one transmission unit packet and a first transmission unit packet of the group includes the at least one piece of PTS information.

11. A data transmitting and receiving method of a P2P network system, the method comprising:

grouping transmission unit packets of a data stream into a group according to a predetermined time unit and providing the group of the transmission unit packets; and

transmitting and receiving the group of the transmission unit packets between a plurality of peers.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the grouping of the transmission unit packets includes grouping the transmission unit packets using time information included in the data stream.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the time information is presentation time stamp (PTS) information.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the group includes at least one piece of PTS information.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the group includes at least one transmission unit packet and a first transmission unit packet of the group includes the at least one piece of PTS information.

16. A peer-to-peer (P2P) network system comprising:

a streaming server which groups transmission unit packets of a data stream into groups according to a predetermined time unit and provides the groups of the transmission unit packets to at least one of a plurality of peer devices; and

the plurality of peer devices which transmit and receive the groups of the transmission unit packets by group,

wherein the streaming server groups the transmission unit packets into the groups using time information included in the data stream, and

the steaming server determines whether a time interval between a currently detected time information of a current transmission unit packet and a previously detected time information of a previous transmission unit packet is longer than the predetermined time unit,

if the streaming server determines that the time interval between the currently detected time information and the previously detected time information is longer than the predetermined time unit, the current transmission unit packet is grouped into a next group, and

if the streaming server determines that the time interval between the currently detected time information and the previously detected time information is shorter than or equal to the predetermined time unit, the current transmission unit packet is grouped into a current group.

17. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the streaming server determines whether the current transmission unit packet includes the time information, and, if the current transmission unit packet does not include the time information, the current transmission unit packet is grouped into a current group.

18. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the time information is presentation time stamp (PTS) information, at least one of the transmission unit packets include the PTS information, and each of the groups includes at least one piece of PTS information.

19. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 16, further comprising an information management server which generates a list of peer devices which have access to a multimedia content, and provides the list of peer devices to only each of the plurality of peer devices which have access to the multimedia content.

20. The P2P network system as claimed in claim 19, wherein the information management server updates the list of peer device upon an occurrence of a pre-set event.