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.

Communication network architectures, systems, and methods supporting network coding of packet data in a network of moving things. Through the use of network coding, a network of moving things provides redundancy and improved network capacity and reliability.

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 method uses private information with a shared single source of truth. A message is received responsive to adding a first shared block to a shared object ledger of a shared object. The message includes message data. A private block is added to a private object ledger to update a private object. The private block includes private data from the message data. A second shared block is added to the shared object ledger to update the shared object. The second shared block includes shared data from the message data.

Embodiments of the present specification provide a method, an apparatus, a client terminal, and a server for data processing. The method includes: selecting, based on a data attribute of to-be-processed data, a target coordinating server from a plurality of coordinating servers, the plurality of coordinating servers belonging to a plurality of server clusters respectively; and sending a data processing request to the target coordinating server, such that a server cluster to which the target coordinating server belongs processes the data processing request preferentially, the data processing request directing to the to-be-processed data.

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 system is described for downloading server-based content to peers in a P2P network. The server-based content can be partitioned and different peers can be given priority for downloading the different parts. A client on each peer can view what content is available on each of the other peers as well as what content is available on a virtual peer, which represents content on the server and only makes content that exists on the server and not on any peers available for download. Consequently, a client on a peer requesting to download the content can download the content from the peers and the virtual peer based on a file sharing protocol, such as BitTorrent.

Described herein are various embodiments of a system for tracking interests in content using a distributed data store. By being “distributed,” there may be multiple different copies of the data store that each hold a portion or all of the data of the data store, with the different copies being continuously, periodically, or occasionally synchronized to ensure that data held in one matches the data held in another, but with no copy of the data store being treated as the official or canonical copy of the data store. The distributed data store may track the interests regarding the content in particular ways, including through storing information identifying the content and identifying interests in the content. The distributed data store may be used to track interests in media, such as to track ownership, management, or royalty interests in media like songs, to provide a mechanism for “Digital Rights Expression” (DRE).

An permissionless blockchain consensus method with adjusting block weight, comprising: setting weights of all blocks in the permissionless blockchain to the same initial value; determining parent edges(forward reference-edges) of any one of blocks in the permissionless blockchain according to the blockchain topology; detecting whether a first judgment block x is in blocks contained by the parent edge of a block b; if yes, determining that the block b is an unstable block and transferring to next step, otherwise, determining the block b is a stable block and transferring to a pivot chain consensus step; and detecting whether a second judgment blocky is in the stable block contained by the parent edge of the block b; if yes, determining the block b is a readjusted block and transferring to a weight adjustment step, otherwise, determining the block b is a stable block and transferring to the pivot chain consensus step.