Method for monitoring and providing information over a peer to peer network

• US 8,037,176 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2010
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kroll Information Assurance LLC
• Original Assignee: Tiversa, Inc. (Tiversa Holding Corp.)
• Inventors: Hopkins, Samuel P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Quang N.
• Application Number:
  US12/850,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/227, 709/232, 709/224, 709/226, 709/228, 709/231
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/042 comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1063 Discovery through centralising entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/107 with limitation or expansion of the discovery scope
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1093 Some peer nodes performing special functions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session
• 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: Y10S 707/99956 File allocation

Abstract

A pseudonode for deployment on a peer to peer network. The pseudonode is programmed for monitoring the peer to peer network to receive search requests therefrom, optionally comparing each said received search with said list of data objects, and to respond to such requests. The response may include advertising; the advertising may be selected in response to the request. The invention also provides a method for monitoring search requests for selected objects by nodes on a peer to peer network. The method further includes interposing the pseudonodes on the network in which it is configured to provide at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID. The pseudonode has at least one stored object corresponding to a request object stored at said pseudonode; and monitors the network to detect requests matching at least one of the stored objects and acquires a unique ID generated by any network node requesting the object matching that stored object on the pseudonode, and responding to substantially each node representing an acquired ID.

Claims

1. A method executed by a peer to peer network node for advertising the method comprising:

connecting to a network;

monitoring said network through the peer to peer network node to detect requests for data from another peer to peer network node; and

sending a response to the other peer to peer network node from the peer to peer network node indicating that the peer to peer network node has the requested data but responding with different data from the requested data, the different data masked as the requested data and used;

wherein sending a response further comprises transmitting to the other peer to peer network node the different data instead of data received from additional other peer to peer network nodes in the network, the data received from the additional other peer to peer network nodes resulting from forwarding the request to the additional other peer to peer network node.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said peer to peer network node further provides at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID, and said peer to peer network node further performs the steps of:

storing at least one search string;

monitoring said network to detect request including a search string related to the at least one stored search string, each request tagged with a unique message ID;

recording the unique message IDs;

dropping other requests including the same unique message ID as at least one of the recorded unique message IDs;

stripping a search term from the request including a search string related to the at least one stored search string and replacing the search term with a randomized character string; and

forwarding the request to the network.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said responding with information is in response to a specific request.

4. The method as set forth in claim 2 wherein at least one of said IP address and client ID is changeable upon the occurrence of a preselected event or events.