发明名称 |
Multi-tiered structure for file sharing based on social roles |
摘要 |
An Internet-scale file sharing system includes a client-side file sharing application that allows file-sharing users to identify files to share and transmit metadata corresponding to those files to a metadata repository. A server-side application operating on the metadata repository tracks metadata received from associated file-sharing users, as well as metadata from other affiliated metadata repositories. Each metadata repository acts as a search engine for any querying users and can provide search results based on locally stored metadata alone. Each metadata repository may additionally choose to locally-store popular files from an associated file-sharing user so as to alleviate transmission burdens on that file-sharing user. Associated metadata repositories each periodically synchronize their stored metadata so that all metadata repositories may generate similar search results. In such manner, file-sharing queries need only be performed by the metadata repository receiving the query, and not by all associated metadata repositories.
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申请公布号 |
US2005131871(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2005.06.16 |
申请号 |
US20030735962 |
申请日期 |
2003.12.15 |
申请人 |
HOWARD MARK A.;SMITH IAN E.;SMITH TREVOR F. |
发明人 |
HOWARD MARK A.;SMITH IAN E.;SMITH TREVOR F. |
分类号 |
G06F7/00;(IPC1-7):G06F7/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F7/00 |
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