METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING

摘要

Peer-to-peer sharing of information is described. A requester peer device obtains portions of a desired digital content from a select number of provider peer devices. The provider peer devices are selected using statistical information that considers historical data access between the requester communication peer device and the provider communication peer devices. The requester peer device also obtains an amount of error correcting data associated with the requested portions of the digital content from the server. The amount of error correcting data is determined using the statistical information. The requester peer device reconstructs the desired digital content using a combination of the digital content portions obtained from the selected provider peers and the error correcting data obtained from the server.