METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING REFERENCE TO OBJECT IN SELF-ORGANIZING, DISTRIBUTED OVERLAY NETWORK, COMPUTER PROGRAM, NODE AND SELF-ORGANIZING DISTRIBUTED OVERLAY NETWORK

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an approved approach for caching results of queries within a self-organizing, distributed overlay network, which allows for a reduction of lookup path length and traffic within the network. PSOLUTION: In a method for distributing in a self-organizing, distributed overlay network a reference to an object associated with a node in the network, a current node storing the reference receives a query for the object. The number of received queries for the object is determined and in case the number of received queries for the object reaches a predefined threshold, the reference is distributed in the network. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT