METHOD OF MANAGING PEER IDENTIFIER RECEIVERS TO ACCESS P2P MODE TO CONTENTS THAT THEY STORE, AND ASSOCIATED MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND NETWORK EQUIPMENT THEREFOR.

摘要

A management device (D) is part of a communication network (R1) to which communication equipment (T1-T4) constituting peers storing content data and operating in P2P mode can connect. This device (D) comprises analysis means (MA) loaded, in the event of receiving a request to obtain identifiers of peers designating a content, from a peer (T1), i) of access a tree structure comprising sheets (associated with peer identifiers storing contents associated with content identifiers) and location nodes (associated with location information representative of the location of the peers associated with the sheets attached to them) , and content information, representative of at least content identifiers stored by these peers), in order to locate the sheet associated with this requesting peer (T1), then to go up the tree from this localized sheet in order to determine a location node associated with the designated content identifier in the received receive request, then the peer identifiers associated with the leaves attached to that loc node determined and said content identifier, and ii) order the transmission to the requesting peer (T1) of identifiers of the determined peers.