Yao Alec Lin

US Patent:

20130007218, Jan 3, 2013

Filed:

Jun 28, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/171149

Inventors:

Nilesh Shah - Fremont CA, US
Shyam Kapadia - Santa Clara CA, US
Yao Lin - San Jose CA, US
Chengelpet Ramesh - San Jose CA, US
Xiaorong Qu - Cupertino CA, US
Fangping Liu - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 15/173

US Classification:

709219, 709238

Abstract:

Embodiments described herein may disclose systems and methods to employ an enhanced tracker in a P2P scenario to increase P2P performance and efficiency. After receiving a request for content the tracker may assist in obtaining as many chunks of the requested content as possible from the plurality of peers on the local network and may obtain any chunks of the requested content not obtained from the plurality of peer on the local network from a randomly selected list of remote peers.