Jie L Lin

US Patent:

20070150498, Jun 28, 2007

Filed:

Dec 23, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/318135

Inventors:

Mei Li - Pittsburgh PA, US
Jie Lin - Webster NY, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00

US Classification:

707101000, 707003000

Abstract:

Methods and systems for managing distributed content are disclosed. Data objects may be received at host nodes. Each data object may be assigned an attribute value for each of one or more attributes that correspond to the data object. A network overlay may be determined based on the attribute values assigned to the plurality of data objects. The network overlay may include a plurality of grid cells. One or more acquaintance links, representing a logical connection between two grid cells, may be generated. Each data object may then be assigned to a grid cell based on at least one attribute value for the data object.