> other p2p streaming applications don't either,hence why they fall down upon high demand.
This patent does not claim anything novel. This idea of "clubs of peers" or groups has been around for a while.
This well known paper from Torino, Italy, written a few years ago: "overlays are maintained by peers organized in clusters that represent sets of collaborating peers", http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2010.2077623
This patent does not claim anything novel. This idea of "clubs of peers" or groups has been around for a while.
This well known paper from Torino, Italy, written a few years ago: "overlays are maintained by peers organized in clusters that represent sets of collaborating peers", http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2010.2077623
Disclaimer: my research team is part of the open IETF Internet Standard on P2P streaming which is directly competing with this patented technology, http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoco...
Anybody else has an even older citation of prior art?