The present invention provides a distributed resource search mechanism in a peer-to-peer computer network comprising a resource requester, search brokers, and resource providers. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the distributed search mechanism provides methods: findResourceProviders, registerResourceProvider,...http://www.google.fr/patents/US20030065774?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US20030065774 - Peer-to-peer based distributed search architecture in a networked environment
Peer-to-peer based distributed search architecture in a networked environment