Co-locating peer devices for peer matching

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016255143-A1
Application number	US-201615052757-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 24, 2016
Priority date	Feb 26, 2015
Publication date	Sep 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The techniques and systems described herein implement an improved peer matching service by coordinating peer matching requests across multiple peer matching nodes configured within a peer matching unit so that resource consumption can be spread out and resource limitations are not exceeded. Moreover, the peer matching service can determine if a peer matching unit is overloaded (e.g., experiencing an increased number of requests in a given time interval that is causing performance degradation), and the peer matching service can implement an action to scale out the number of requests within the peer matching unit (e.g., re-distribute some peer matching requests to another peer matching unit). In various examples, the peer matching service can determine if peer devices are co-located peer devices based on location information and can generate a list that prioritizes the co-located peer devices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . One or more devices comprising:
one or more processors; memory storing a list of peer identifiers corresponding to a set of peer devices that have registered with a plurality of peer matching nodes for peer matching services associated with a content identifier; and one or more modules stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors to:
receive, from the set of peer devices, location information in association with requests to register the set of peer devices with the plurality of peer matching nodes for peer matching services associated with the content identifier;
determine, based at least in part on the location information, that a subset of the set of peer devices is associated with co-location information indicating that peer devices in the subset are proximal to one another; and
provide, to individual peer devices included in the subset, a list of first peer identifiers associated with other peer devices included in the subset.

2 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein the one or more modules are further executable by the one or more processors to provide, to the individual peer devices in the subset, a prioritized list of peer identifiers associated with the set of peer devices, the prioritized list placing the first peer identifiers associated with the other peer devices included in the subset over second peer identifiers associated with peer devices not included in the subset.

3 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein:
the location information comprises at least one of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, geo-location information, or an Internet Service Provider; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding IP addresses, geo-location information, or Internet Service Providers indicating that the subset of peer devices is within a predefined distance threshold.

4 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein:
the location information comprises domain information; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding domain information indicating that the subset of peer devices is part of a same domain.

5 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein the set of peer devices comprises a swarm, and the list is used to avoid swarm fragmentation.

6 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein the subset of peer devices are positioned to implement peer-to-peer transfer of content associated with the content identifier with each other more efficiently than with peer devices not included in the subset.

7 . The one or more devices of claim 1 , wherein the co-location information indicates that the subset of peer devices are capable of implementing peer-to-peer transfer of content associated with the content identifier within an internal network and without using networking equipment that routes data from the internal network to an external network.

8 . The one or more devices of claim 7 , wherein the networking equipment comprises a router.

9 . A method comprising:
receiving, from a set of peer devices, location information in association with requests to register the set of peer devices with a plurality of peer matching nodes for peer matching services associated with a content identifier; determining, based at least in part on the location information, that a subset of the set of peer devices is associated with co-location information indicating that peer devices in the subset are proximal to one another; and providing, to individual peer devices included in the subset, a list of first peer identifiers associated with other peer devices included in the subset.

10 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising providing, to the individual peer devices in the subset, a prioritized list of peer identifiers associated with the set of peer devices, the prioritized list placing the first peer identifiers associated with the other peer devices included in the subset over second peer identifiers associated with peer devices not included in the subset.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein:
the location information comprises at least one of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, geo-location information, or an Internet Service Provider; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding IP addresses, geo-location information, or Internet Service Providers indicating that the subset of peer devices is within a predefined distance threshold.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein:
the location information comprises domain information; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding domain information indicating that the subset of peer devices is part of a same domain.

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the subset of peer devices are positioned to implement peer-to-peer transfer of content associated with the content identifier with each other more efficiently than with peer devices not included in the subset.

14 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the co-location information indicates that the subset of peer devices are capable of implementing peer-to-peer transfer of content associated with the content identifier within an internal network and without using network equipment that routes data from the internal network to an external network.

15 . One or more computer storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, configure a device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a set of peer devices, location information in association with requests to register the set of peer devices with a plurality of peer matching nodes for peer matching services associated with a content identifier; determining, based at least in part on the location information, that a subset of the set of peer devices is associated with co-location information indicating that peer devices in the subset are proximal to one another; and providing, to individual peer devices included in the subset, a list of first peer identifiers associated with other peer devices included in the subset.

16 . The one or more computer storage media of claim 15 , the operations further comprising providing, to the individual peer devices in the subset, a prioritized list of peer identifiers associated with the set of peer devices, the prioritized list placing the first peer identifiers associated with the other peer devices included in the subset over second peer identifiers associated with peer devices not included in the subset.

17 . The one or more computer storage media of claim 15 , wherein:
the location information comprises at least one of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, geo-location information, or an Internet Service Provider; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding IP addresses, geo-location information, or Internet Service Providers indicating that the subset of peer devices is within a predefined distance threshold.

18 . The one or more computer storage media of claim 15 , wherein:
the location information comprises domain information; and the subset of peer devices are determined to be associated with the co-location information based at least in part on corresponding domain information indicating that the subset of pe

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Hunt Brandon T
• Burba Alexander

Classifications

• H04L67/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/104 Primary

  Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks · CPC title

• H04L67/52

  specially adapted for the location of the user terminal · CPC title

• H04L67/1093

  Some peer nodes performing special functions · CPC title

• H04L67/1072

  Discovery involving ranked list compilation of candidate peers · CPC title