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| 7765411 | Method and apparatus for facilitating secure distributed content delivery One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates receiving content from a primary peer and forwarding it to a secondary peer, wherein blocks of the content are sent to the secondary peer prior to all of the blocks of the content being recei... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7450524 | Method and apparatus for determining network topology in a peer-to-peer network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates determining the network topology in a peer-to-peer network. The system operates by performing a tracerouting operation to obtain a traceroute from a first client to a directory server, wherei... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7398301 | Method and apparatus for facilitating distributed delivery of content across a computer network One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates receiving content at a client from one or more servers that can potentially provide the content. The client starts by sending a request for the content to a directory server. In response to t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7363498 | Method and apparatus for facilitating secure distributed content delivery One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates receiving content from a primary peer and forwarding it to a secondary peer, wherein blocks of the content are sent to the secondary peer prior to all of the blocks of the content being recei... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349358 | Method and apparatus for optimizing content delivery on local subnets One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates optimizing content delivery on a network. During operation, the system receives an item of content at a first client. During the download of the content or after downloading the content, the ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7089290 | Dynamically configuring network communication parameters for an application One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamically configuring communication parameters for an application on a network node. During operation, the system monitors activities on the network node that are external to the applicatio... | 08/08/2006 |
