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Here they are (after a small googling):

http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&IN=eh...

Specifically take a look at these claims: http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/claims?CC=US&...

I'm not really sure whether those are actual patents or patent applications, but even in later case the chance of them being rejected are very low.




Priority date 2007, I'd be surprised if there wasn't any prior art by that date. I know I was working on a P2P streaming system in 2006, for example.


There are many p2p networks for streaming content - they seem to be popular in Asia for watching English and European football, and I think many of these existed prior to 2007.

I'm sure there's a mountain of other prior art covering the concept. It isn't novel to anybody with half a brain. I was streaming audio in the 90s and clearly remember thinking about a p2p network then, because of the expense and legal threats I was receiving. All I wanted to do was enable football fans living abroad to listen to the local radio station on match days.. I thought I was doing the BBC a favour by extending their broadcast range! Yeah, I was just a naive kid. :)


PeerCast.org comes to mind. April 2002. IIRC it was based on Gnutella.


I would not worry about this patent. There is prior art.

For instance, this paper I wrote in 2002 uses techniques which overlap with their claims: http://www.springerlink.com/content/ujrmkgp929v6je7p/




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