The disclosure provides systems and methods for efficient arrangement, use, and management of networked electronic devices. The networked electronic devices are configured to form a peer-to-peer network, and to allocate management, download, and aggregation responsibilities among themselves to improve efficiency. Networking errors are minimized by replacing faulting nodes with idle nodes.

A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.

Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing content distribution via a breadth-first approach for peer-to-peer file sharing in a temporary ad hoc mesh network. For example, a peer-to-peer orchestrator may receive requests for the same asset from multiple mobile devices, determine which of the mobile devices are likely to travel along the same route at the same time, group them together and cause transmission of different asset parts of the requested asset to different mobile devices in the group. If the mobile devices in the group lose connection with the peer-to-peer orchestrator, they may form an ad hock mesh network and retrieve asset parts from one another. If the group reconnects with a peer-to-peer orchestrator, additional asset parts of the asset may be transmitted to the group and the process may repeat so that each mobile device may obtain each of the asset parts.

Provided is a storage system capable of avoiding the increase in communication between nodes in the coordination of the file service and the block service. This is a storage system in which a plurality of nodes, which provide a file service for performing I/O in file units and a block service for performing I/O in block units, are connected via a network, and the storage system comprises a management unit which manages the first file processing unit and the second file processing unit as a pair, sets the first file processing unit to be operable, manages the first block processing unit and the second block processing unit as a pair, and sets the first block processing unit to be operable.

An exemplary method includes establishing, by a sending device, a communication session with a receiving device, the communication session configured to transfer an array of related, sequenced data blocks from the sending device to the receiving device. The method includes sending one or more parameter messages including parameters associated with the array of data blocks. The method includes receiving one or more parameter acknowledgement messages to the one or more parameter messages, the one or more parameter acknowledgement messages including a plurality of memory addresses of the receiving device, the plurality of memory addresses including a respective memory address for each data block of the array of data blocks. The method includes sending the array of data blocks to the receiving device, each data block of the array of data blocks sent to the respective memory address using a remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol.

A device for communication includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to determine a target quality of service (QoS). The processor is also configured to determine, based on the target QoS, a transmission schedule identifying one or more transmission time-blocks. The transmitter is configured to transmit data to at least one device during a transmission time-block of the one or more transmission time-blocks.

A method for downloading a file for use in a first mobile terminal, includes: determining at least one second mobile terminal, connected with the first mobile terminal, as a receiving mobile terminal; sending a request for splitting and downloading a file for a server to split the file into a plurality of subfiles and send at least one of the plurality of subfiles to the receiving mobile terminal; after the receiving mobile terminal completes receiving of the subfile, acquiring the subfile from the receiving mobile terminal; and after all of the plurality of subfiles are acquired, combining the plurality of subfiles into the file and saving the file.

A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.

Embodiments of this specification provide a consensus node changing method and apparatus based on a Honey Badger Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus mechanism. The method includes: when receiving a transaction for changing a blockchain's consensus node, executing, by a consensus node of the blockchain, the transaction to trigger a smart contract to update a consensus node configuration list of the blockchain, where the consensus node configuration list includes serial numbers allocated to consensus nodes based on a serial number allocation rule specified by the smart contract; associating, by the consensus node based on serial numbers of consensus nodes in the updated consensus node configuration list, another consensus node of the blockchain with at least two state machines configured in the consensus node.

A method, computer program and apparatus are disclosed that include accessing client data records, such as, medical records. The method may include receiving a data file at a server sent from at least one client and including client requirements. The method may also include storing the received data file locally at the server, executing an application that scans the server to determine if any new data files have been received. The method may also include storing the copied data file in a data folder stored in a file cluster, updating a table stored in a database to indicate that a new file has been stored, deleting the locally stored file from the server, and moving files specified by the client requirements from an export folder of the file cluster to the server so that the at least one client may access the exported files.