Inventors:
Carleton J. Bosley - New York NY, US
Benjamin B. Wilken - Cambridge MA, US
Gitika Srivastava - Cambridge MA, US
International Classification:
G06F 7/00
G06F 17/00
US Classification:
707673, 707741, 707830, 709220, 709221, 709222, 709252
Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and programming recorded in machine readable memory are provided for the index, search and retrieval of objects on a global network. This inventive system embeds a distributed index in a routing layer to enable fast search. The method provides dynamic insertion, lookup, retrieval, and deletion of participating nodes, objects and associated metadata in a completely decentralized fashion. Nodes can dynamically join and leave the network. This infrastructure can be applied to content networks for publishing, searching, downloading, and streaming.