IMPROVING PEER-TO-PEER PERFORMANCE

摘要

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and devices for identifying other computing devices of a peer-to-peer network to which to effect or recommend that a specific computing device send a download request for specific digital content. This can involve accessing information regarding other computing devices that currently have the specific digital content and other computing devices that are currently in a process of obtaining the specific digital content, and determining, based on the accessed information, estimates of amounts of time it will take for the specific computing device to download the specific digital content from the other computing devices that currently have the specific digital content, and from the other computing devices that are currently in the process of obtaining the specific digital content. Based on the estimates, one or more of the other computing devices to which to send the download request for the specific digital content is/are identified.