PROVIDING PEER PEER NETWORK COMPUTER SERVICES

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
BRIDGE IX	DARTPOINTS OPERATING COMPANY	Suite 1325, 2001 Bryan Street Dallas TX 75201	Providing peer-to-peer network computer services, namely, electronic transmission of data among computers utilizing internet exchange points;IX;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A system and method for providing rendezvous nodes in a peer-to-peer networking environment is described. Rendezvous nodes preferably cache information about network resources that may be useful to peer nodes on a peer-to-peer network. In one embodiment, a network of rendezvous nodes may help peer nodes to discover network resources over long-range on the peer-to-peer network. Network resource may include, but may not be limited to peer nodes, peer groups, services, content, and communication channels. In one embodiment, rendezvous nodes may respond to discovery query messages from peer nodes. The discovery query messages may specify desired network resource information. In one embodiment, rendezvous nodes may provide route discovery for network resources. In one embodiment, a peer node may be pre-configured with a pre-defined set of rendezvous nodes to access on startup. These bootstrapping rendezvous may help the peer node discover network resources that it needs to start up.