Methods and systems for transferring information, comprising: transmitting, by a first computing device of the first computing system, a first network function request to a decentralized network, the first network function request including first information; and transmitting, by a second computing device of the second computing system, a second network function request to the decentralized network, the second network function request including second information.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a resource splitter to determine a quantity of blocks to divide a resource to be downloaded. A transmitter of the system broadcasts, per block, an identification request through a peer-to-peer network to identify computing devices that have the block. A downloader of the system downloads blocks from other computing devices on the peer-to-peer network. The system also includes an assembler to re-assemble the resource from received blocks.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes a resource splitter to determine a quantity of blocks to divide a resource to be downloaded. A transmitter of the system broadcasts, per block, an identification request through a peer-to-peer network to identify computing devices that have the block. A downloader of the system downloads blocks from other computing devices on the peer-to-peer network. The system also includes an assembler to re-assemble the resource from received blocks.

Technologies for establishing and utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure using a plurality of mobile computing devices include broadcasting for the formation of the decentralized cloud computing and storage infrastructure and establishing wireless communications between the plurality of mobile computing devices. The plurality of mobile computing devices self-organize and cooperate with one another to establish a structured decentralized cloud infrastructure to expose and sharing resources, services, and/or applications for ad hoc or socially-driven decentralized, cloud computing purposes.

A network routing table includes destination addresses of destination applications hosted on peer nodes of a network. A primary processor registers a first destination application and a second destination application, where the first destination application is the same as the second destination application and both the first destination application and the second destination application have the same destination address. That processor also provides the peer nodes and a secondary processor with a copy of the table. When the first destination application is inactivated, all peer nodes and the secondary processor are provided with a copy of an updated routing table indicating inactivation of the first destination application and routing of the application message to the second destination application. A further application message addressed from any of the peer nodes to the destination address associated with the inactivated first destination application will be routed, via the updated routing table, to the second destination application having the same destination address as the inactivated first destination application. The secondary processor provides the copy of the routing table and the copy of the updated routing table in case of failure of the primary processor in response to a request from the querying peer node.

A communication apparatus includes a first communication unit for unencrypted communication compliant with a first standard for communication, and a second communication unit for encrypted communication compliant with a second standard for communication, In a case where connection information used for the second communication unit to perform encrypted communication with an external apparatus has been received from the external apparatus via the first communication unit, a control unit records the connection information on a recording medium. In a case where connection with the external apparatus has been established via the first communication unit, the control unit determines whether the connection information is currently recorded on the recording medium, and, in a case where it has been determined that the connection information is not currently recorded on the recording medium, the control unit causes a notification unit to issue a notification indicating that the connection information is not currently recorded.

A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.

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.

A content management system for collecting files from one or more authenticated submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.

This disclosure describes techniques for scaling resources that handle, participate, and/or control routing protocol sessions. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes instantiating a plurality of containerized routing protocol modules, each capable of storing routing information about a network having a plurality of routers; performing network address translation to enable each of the containerized routing protocol modules to communicate with each of the plurality of routers using a public address associated with the computing system; configuring each of the containerized routing protocol modules to peer with a different subset of the plurality of routers so that each of the containerized routing protocol modules share routing information with a respective different subset of the plurality of routers; and configuring each of the containerized routing protocol modules to peer with each other to share routing information received from the different subsets of the plurality of routers.