CLUSTER PEER FOR PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF

摘要

A method of supplementing a peer-to-peer (P2P) computer network including a plurality of nodes, the method including acts of determining a common request for given content among the nodes; grouping nodes into one or more clusters in accordance with the determined common request such that each cluster comprises a subset of the nodes as peers of the cluster; selecting a cluster peer (CP) for each cluster from among the peers of the cluster, the CP of each cluster having a network connection to the nodes in the P2P computer network; sourcing content from a peer having the content to a node requesting the content; sinking other content from a node having the other content to the CP of a corresponding cluster that desires the other content; and transmitting the sinked other content from the CP of the corresponding cluster to each of the peers of the corresponding cluster.