公开(公告)号：US20100250709A1

公开(公告)日：2010-09-30

申请号：US12698584

申请日：2010-02-02

申请人： Jaqueline MALLETT ,  Francis Van Aeken ,  Olivier Elshocht ,  Philip Marivoet ,  Tom Hostyn

发明人： Jaqueline MALLETT ,  Francis Van Aeken ,  Olivier Elshocht ,  Philip Marivoet ,  Tom Hostyn

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/104 ,  H04L67/108 ,  H04L67/1082

摘要： A distribution system including, for connection over a network a plurality of client upload devices, each client upload device storing one or more chunks of a content file, a client download device configured to download from the client upload devices chunks of the content file stored by the respective client upload devices and an incentive device configured to generate token data packets exchangeable for chunks of the content file. The client download device is configured to acquire a plurality of token data packets from the incentive device and to communicate with individual respective client upload devices and thereby download, in exchange for respective token data packets, stored chunks of the content file. Each client upload device is configured to communicate with the client download device and, thereby, upload to the client download device stored chunks of the content file in exchange for token data packets acquired by the client download device from the incentive device and is configured to transmit to the incentive device token data packets received from the client download device.