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Serving content from an off-line peer server in a photosharing peer-to-peer network in response to a guest request

  • US 8,280,985 B2
  • Filed: 03/22/2010
  • Issued: 10/02/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing access to a peer server protected by a firewall, the method comprising:

  • receiving from a requestor, at a proxy server, a URL request that identifies the peer server;

    accessing a server table having a plurality of peer names and socket information associated with each peer name of the plurality of peer names to determine if the peer server is registered with the proxy server;

    creating a peer request packet based on the URL request;

    passing the peer request packet to a peer manager associated with the proxy server where the peer manager finds a socket connection to the peer server;

    passing the peer request packet to the peer server;

    receiving a response at the proxy server including a peer response packet from the peer server, wherein the peer response packet includes;

    a packet size;

    a packet type;

    a payload field; and

    a unique identifier for correlating the peer request packet to the peer response packet;

    converting the response into a URL request response at the proxy server;

    caching data from the response at the proxy server; and

    sending the URL request response to the requestor.

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