DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE AGENTS FOR MANAGING A DECENTRALISED PEER-TO-PEER STORAGE NETWORK

Abstract: a method of managing a decentralised repository of stored digital units of information, the decentralised repository comprised of a plurality of inter-acting peer-to-peer computing systems, comprising steps of: (a) loading a software agent on each of a plurality of peer-to-peer computing systems, the software agents making up a network of distributed software agents; (b) using the network of distributed software agents to manage the decentralized repository of stored digital units of information; wherein at least one of (i) software agent code for at least one of the software agents, and (ii) a cryptographic digest of such software agent code, is stored in at least one block in the decentralised repository.

Inventor(s): Catherine WHITE, Jonathan ROSCOE, Robert HERCOCK

CPC Classification: G06F3/067 ({Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]})

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