Method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network

• US 8,082,343 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2006
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yongmin Zhang
• Original Assignee: Yongmin Zhang
• Inventors: Zhang, Yongmin
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Haresh N
• Application Number:
  US12/297,696
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,070 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-229, 726/15, 715/741
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1044 Group management mechanisms management of multicast group membership H04L12/185; reconfiguring of node membership in a computing system to eliminate errors G06F11/1425
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1046 Joining mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1048 Departure or maintenance mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

A method and device for making clients rapidly access to the peer-to-peer network comprise that the accessed clients, which are separated into one or more normal state groups; the clients that intend to log in are separated into one or more login groups; and the required contents, the variant of the contents or the content-related information are selectively transmitted to the members of the login groups immediately. After a certain login group becomes stable, the normal state groups which the login groups intend to be added into are selected and each member of the login groups is added into the selected normal state groups. In this invention, there is no need to frequently send notification individually when each client loges in, rather than send group notification, thus it can reduce network dithering, at the same time the user can receive the content or the related variant of the content immediately and watch the playing of the content without any wait when accessing to the network.

Claims

1. A method for making clients rapidly access to a peer-to-peer network by grouping clients for entering comprising the following steps:

A1, establishing, by a hardware processor, one or more normal state groups for accessed (logged in) clients;

B1, establishing, by a hardware processor, one or more login groups for clients that intend to log in;

C1, selectively transmitting, by a hardware processor, required contents, variant of the contents or content-related information to the members of the login groups immediately;

D1, selecting, by a hardware processor, after a certain logging group becomes stable, the normal state groups which the login groups intend to add into;

in the step D1 whether the login group is stable is determined through the following steps;

D11, the number of the members in the login group is detected,

D12, whether the number of the members in a login group is larger than or equal to the predetermined value is determined, if yes, the login group can be regarded as stable, if not, a step D13 is executed,

D13, whether the time during which the login group waits to be added into the normal state group is longer than or equal to a first predetermined time is determined, if yes, the login group can be regarded as stable;

if not, the process continues to wait;

the normal state group which the login group intends to be added into is selected in step D1 through the following steps;

the normal state group with the same attributes is selected,

if there exists the normal state group, determining whether the number of the members in a login group is less than a predetermined value;

if yes, the normal state group with fewer members is selected as one that the login group intends to be added into for system balance, if there is no normal state groups whose number of members is less than a predetermined value, another group with the same attribute is added as the normal state group which the login group intending to be added into,

if there is no normal state group with the same attributes, a new such normal state group is created as the normal state group which the login group intends to be added into;

for both each normal state group and each login group, control datasets are established, which record the attributes of each member in the state and login groups, and at least comprise necessary data for mutual communication among each member and marks of reflecting changes of the control dataset;

and

E1, adding, by a hardware processor, each member of the login groups into the selected normal state groups.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in the step B1, the client that intends to log in is added into the login group with the same attributes;

if there is no such a login group, a new login group with the same attributes will be created and the said client will be added into the newly created group with the same attributes.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the login group continuously receives new members, and makes reflection on the control dataset after the step B1.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a normal state control dataset of the selected normal state group is transmitted to the login group in the step E1.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein comprising the following steps after step E1:

F1, the normal state control dataset of the selected normal state group is updated;

and

H1, the updated normal state control dataset is transmitted to all members of the normal state group.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the steps for maintaining the control dataset:

A2, a server monitors connection and disconnection requirements and communication statuses of the clients that participate in content transmissions, makes changes reflected in the control datasets, and marks the changed control dataset; and

B2, the updated control dataset is transmitted to each client through the following steps;

B21, depending on the existing control dataset, the server divides changed parts of the control dataset or the variant of the control dataset into blocks, then respectively transmits the blocks to part or all members;

the members transmit the received blocks from the server to other members in the same group again; and

B22, if there is no previous control dataset for members, the whole control dataset or its variant will be transmitted by the server to members.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a P2P transmission can be used in transmission of contents, variant of contents or content-related information to the login groups by a server in step C1, through the following steps:

the contents, the variant of the contents or the content-related information to be transmitted are divided into blocks, which then are respectively transmitted to part or all members in the login groups;

the members will transmit the received blocks from the server to other members in the same group again.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein after being stable, the login group is transferred to a transition group as a whole in step D1.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein after the transmission of the control dataset of the selected normal state group to all members is finished, or after a second predetermined time, the transitional group is added into the selected normal state group as a whole.

10. A device for making clients rapidly access to peer-to-peer network comprising:

means for establishing one or more normal state groups for accessed (logged in) clients;

means for establishing one or more login groups for the clients that intend to log in;

means for selectively transmitting required contents, variant of the contents or content-related information to the members of the login groups immediately;

means for selecting, after a certain logging group becomes stable, the normal state groups which the login groups intend to add into;

means for adding each member of the login groups into the selected normal state groups; and

means establishing control datasets which record the attributes of each member in the state and login groups, and at least comprise necessary data for mutual communication among each member and marks of reflecting changes of the control dataset for both of each normal state group and each login group.