公开(公告)号：US09913251B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-06

申请号：US14818173

申请日：2015-08-04

Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Inventor： Yutaka Takeda ,  Steven Thomas ,  Attila Vass

IPC: G06F15/167 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W72/005 ,  H04L67/1053 ,  H04L67/1065 ,  H04L67/1093 ,  H04M2203/205 ,  H04M2203/4545 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A peer node coupled to a plurality of other peer nodes in an overlay network may process a broadcast message from an upstream peer node containing a plurality of packets by identifying packet missing from the message, identifying an upstream node to which the peer node has an existing inbound connection and which has the missing packet, and obtaining the missing packet from the upstream node. A message from an upstream node may be processed by buffering a subset of the packets of the message in a buffer for a finite period of time before and after the peer node consumes the packets and by identifying one or more of the buffered packets to one or more finger nodes.