Method For Monitoring And Providing Information Over A Peer To Peer Network

• US 20110289151A1
• Filed: 05/31/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• 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.
• Granted Patent: US 8,386,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• 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

The present invention relates to a pseudonode used for deployment on a peer to peer network which pseudonode comprises an IP address and client ID that is changeable upon the occurrence of a preselected event and includes a list containing at least one searchable data object. The pseudonode is programmed for monitoring the network to receive search requests therefrom and to compare each said received search with said list of data objects and to respond to such request. The invention also provides a method for monitoring search requests for selected objects by nodes on a peer to peer network. The method 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 for monitoring search requests for selected objects by a node on a peer to peer network having at least two nodes and removing responses from the network, said method comprising the steps of:

a. interposing at least one pseudonode on said network, said pseudonode configured to provide at least one IP address and optionally at least one client ID and having at least one selected requested object stored at aid pseudonode;

b. monitoring said network through at least one of said pseudonode to detect requests matching said at least one of said stored objects;

c. replacing the search term within the search request with random characters; and

d. forwarding said request to other nodes of the network.

2. A method for reporting which files are currently being acquired on a peer to peer network having at least two nodes, said method consisting of:

a. interposing at least one pseudonode on said network configured for;

b. monitoring said network through at least one of said pseudonode to detect search requests that are in a filename format.