Patent attributes
Methods and systems are provided for providing receiver-driven streaming of an item of content in a peer-to-peer network comprising a receiver peer node and a plurality of transmitter peer nodes. In one implementation, a method is provided that comprises providing, at the receiver peer node, a plurality of input managers, wherein each of the plurality of input managers uses a connection to a corresponding one of the plurality of transmitter peer nodes, and sending, from the plurality of input managers, one or more requests for at least a part of the item of content to the plurality of transmitter peer nodes in the network. The method also comprises receiving, in response to the one or more requests, one or more data packages corresponding to at least a part of the item of content at a first input manager of the plurality of input managers, receiving, in response to the one or more requests, one or more data packages corresponding to at least another part of the item of content at a second input manager of the plurality of input managers, and making, at the receiver peer node, incoming content received by at least the first and second input managers, ready for processing and play-back at the receiver peer node, so that part of the item of content is streamed to a stream target at the receiver peer node while another part of the item of content is being received by the receiver peer node.
