OBJECT SCHEMAS AND PACKET CHAIN PROTOCOLS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL CONTENT ROUTING AND DISTRIBUTION IN PEER-TO-PEER DYNAMIC CONNECTION STRUCTURES

摘要

Dynamic Connection Structures (DCS) utilizing a plurality of object schemas to effect the topologies and routing for transferring data files to pluralities of computers or nodes on a network are provided. Many types of objects schemas are provided including FSI (file set information) and FI (file information) which are useful in facilitating the meshes, graphs, rings, and ordered binary tree algorithms of the provided Dynamic Connection Structures, and which are configured to facilitate the adaptation and change of the topologies and routing schemes in peer-to-peer architectures, depending upon a number of significant attributes of the nodes, including their relative positions, capacities, content status, and their respective relationships to other nodes in the DCS. The present schemas include also change information list (CCIL) object schemas and connection change information (CCI) object schemas such that the CCI object schemas can be passed to servants to connect to the DCS and to connected servants to reposition the connected servants within the DCS. Thus, nodes of the invention can be adapted for efficiently changing their topologies and for routing content between and among the nodes of the DCS.