Accessing content hosted on a peer device in a peer-to-peer network using a uniform resource locator (URL)

• US 20110137986A1
• Filed: 12/08/2009
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Edward O'Brien Wolf
• Original Assignee: Edward O'Brien Wolf
• Inventors: Wolf, Edward O'Brien
• Application Number:
  US12/586,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20110137986A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A system and method allows users to access content that is hosted on a peer device. Additionally, a resource-generating device automatically creates a URL for resources generated on the peer device. The generated resource is accessible from a public network while still on the device via the URL. The system and device further includes an update feed for new and newly-modified resources on the system or device.

Claims

1. A system for providing URL accessibility to peer-network-hosted content, comprising:

a publishing PC running a host application and hosting a resource, a name server, a web server, a host server, and an Internet Domain Name service, wherein resources hosted on the peers are accessible by a public network site via a uniform resource locator (URL).

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the URL type is selected from the group consisting of opaque URLs and RESTful URLs.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the network is in communication with at least one third-party application on at least one digital appliance.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the peer-to-peer network further includes an update feed for new and newly-modified resources on the network.

5. A method for providing URL accessibility to peer-network-hosted content, the method steps comprising:

a. providing a peer-network, the network comprising a publishing PC running a host application and hosting a resource, a name server, a web server, a host server, an Internet Domain Name service and a second network user;

b. a first user placing a document in a sharing folder for a sharing application on the publishing PC;

c. the sharing application generating a URL for the document that identifies the application installation and the document;

d. the first user copying the URL from the Afinos application window, pasting it into the IM application window and sending it to a second user;

e. the second user clicking on the URL and the IM client launching the web browser with the URL;

f. the second user'"'"'s web browser using the ‘

Internet Domain Name’

services to resolve the domain name part of the URL back to a web server. The web browser then sending a GET request to the web server passing the whole URL;

g. the web server parsing the URL to extract the ‘

unique peer ID’ and

the ‘

unique archive ID’ and

the ‘

remaining unparseable portion of the URL’

;

h. the web server passing these three values to the host software to retrieve the content represented by those three values;

i. the host server requesting the name server to help establish a connection to the given ‘

unique peer ID’

;

j. the host server asking the unique peer ID for the content of the remaining unparsed portion of the URL within the data archive unique archive ID;

k. the publishing host sending the requested content back to the host server;

l. the host server receiving the contiguous data and providing the data back to the web server which streams it live back to the second user'"'"'s web browser.

6. The method of claim 5, further including the step of:

a. the first user continuing to edit the file, and

b. the second user hitting REFRESH in the browser and receiving the updated file.

7. A system for sharing digital resources, the system comprising a resource-generating device, wherein the device automatically creates a URL for resources generated on the device and the resource is accessible from a public network while still on the device via the URL.

8. The device of claim 7, further including an update feed for new and newly-modified resources on the device.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the device is a digital camera in wireless communication with the Internet.

10. The device of claim 7, wherein the URL type is selected from the group consisting of opaque URLs and RESTful URLs.

11. The device of claim 9, further including an RSS-enabled photo frame to view the resources.

12. The device of claim 9, further including a streaming video application on a second device on the public network for viewing videos shared by the resource-generating device.